I *KNOW* he's a creep, tyvm. It's that I'm getting off of a YouTube session about Edward VII, Queen Mary, Edward the Idiot/VIII and fellow despicable Nazi Wallis. So... the current gal Liz the 2 deserves a laugh (when she sees Phil wearing the bearskin) after what her parents and she did in WWII.

she was crowned the year I was born.

the rise and fall of the American empire, also in my lifetime.

as Bill MAHER, says, "I hate these people (royals)!1"

and the windsors do not represent an ideal family history (from Shakespeare's villians through George iii and jack the ripper) but, their princes do make themselves useful by serving in the military, unlike the entitled trumps and bushes of American dynasties.

for Americans to be "Royalists"... (ignoring extreme Trumpists for the moment). Thus, my view of THIS Elizabethan period is fascination-- as with an arc of history, some considerable respect (she's the ultimate survivalist, after all) and some small appreciation for the conflicted feelings that Brits must have for this living relic of their past and its place in the future.

I don't revere the Royals as would the idiotic celebrity-addicted (talking to you, Kardashian-obsessed, TMZ-following Americans), but how can one not be at least interested in their place in history and, it would appear, the future?

So, although I'm not Catholic, I sometimes imagine what it would be like living in a monarchy by measuring the reigns of the Popes.

Queen Elizabeth is so long-lived and long-serving that she doesn't serve as a good barometer of monarchical duration.

So I've lived through:

Paul VI
John Paul I
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Francis

Pius XII
John XXIII
Paul VI
John Paul I
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Francis

Longevity really runs in the family, doesn't it?