Royalty makes a return - 232 years late
This is going to sound strange - unbelievable, probably - but I have just returned from a visit to the only royal palace on US soil, where angry Americans are demanding that the Queen be returned to power. I'm completely serious. As far as these neo-monarchists are concerned, the choice offered by November 4's election isn't good enough.
They want blue blood and a crown.
Now I know what you're thinking: it took them long enough to come to their senses. It's been - what? - just over 232 years since the Americans kicked us out of the colony. Clearly, the past eight have been enough to push them over the edge. So make way, George W. Bush, for the 44th President of the US: Queen Elizabeth II!
But hang on a minute. The royal palace that I visited was in Honolulu, which is on the island of Oahu - one of the 137 islands and atolls that make up the state of Hawaii, located 2,500 miles southwest of Los Angeles. The last Briton to assert his authority in that part of the world - a certain Captain James Cook - supposedly ended up being eaten by the natives.
So these American monarchists are not lobbying for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, but to be governed by one of the native Hawaiian descendants of Queen Lili'uokalani, deposed with the help of US troops in 1893 - a dastardly act for which President Clinton apologised. There is only one problem: there are at least two competing heirs to the throne, including Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau, and His Highness Akahi Nui.
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They want blue blood and a crown.
Now I know what you're thinking: it took them long enough to come to their senses. It's been - what? - just over 232 years since the Americans kicked us out of the colony. Clearly, the past eight have been enough to push them over the edge. So make way, George W. Bush, for the 44th President of the US: Queen Elizabeth II!
But hang on a minute. The royal palace that I visited was in Honolulu, which is on the island of Oahu - one of the 137 islands and atolls that make up the state of Hawaii, located 2,500 miles southwest of Los Angeles. The last Briton to assert his authority in that part of the world - a certain Captain James Cook - supposedly ended up being eaten by the natives.
So these American monarchists are not lobbying for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, but to be governed by one of the native Hawaiian descendants of Queen Lili'uokalani, deposed with the help of US troops in 1893 - a dastardly act for which President Clinton apologised. There is only one problem: there are at least two competing heirs to the throne, including Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau, and His Highness Akahi Nui.