Does this Crisis echo the Glorious Revolutuon?

[Mikebert]

(01-19-2017, 02:31 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-19-2017, 02:13 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(01-06-2017, 01:40 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-05-2017, 05:29 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Eric, pretty sure King Donald is succeeding Barry I, The Black Prince.

...Dubya Bush was a "King," who ordered up needless wars that killed thousands...

In that case he would be George VI.

Not that I remember. There were two USA presidents named George before him; not three.

Yes and those would be George VI and George V.  At the time the US broke off the king was George III.  I don't think we ceased to think of ourselves as an English country after the Revolution, so if you want to see presidents as kings (which they sort of are) then it would be natural to continue the regnal numbering.  

Had the Brits had offered us Home Rule I think we would have opted for that, and Queen Elizabeth would be our Head of State, as in in Canada.  I suspect if it had been up to Parliament, it would have gone that way.  But George had other ideas and the king still mattered in those days.  After the experience with America, Britain chose differently with the other white dominions.