[rollei_list] Re: Why a Commoner
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:54:21 -0400
At 12:39 AM 8/1/2009, Jim Boy wrote:
Marc and Richard, thanks for the
information. Seems complicated enough that the
idea of a trial by a jury of 12 of your peers
probably has implications I've never thought
of. I recently watched the Queen's coronation
on YouTube. Maybe I can find my copy of Jim
Corbett's book about guarding a princess through
the night against the depredations of a leopard,
only to have her awake as a Queen in the morning.
The treehouse hotel where Philip and Elizabeth
were staying in Kenya when word came of her
father's death is still in business and is a
resort destination, mainly for USian monarchy-nuts, it seems.
Until 1949, UK peers could claim the right to be
tried by THEIR peers, the House of Lords. I'm
not certain why they surrendered that right as it
was not a very controversial one.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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