Queen for a day. Queen for life. But not necessarily your life.
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SCENE: King (with many medals on a military style uniform) and queen-to-be with a castle in the background. Man and woman.
QUEEN: So, let me get this straight your majesty! If I marry you will I still be the queen...even if you die mysteriously on the first night of our honeymoon?
KING: Yes! but...why do you ask?
QUEEN: Just checking...for a friend!
Actors Mae Murray and Jean Hersholt in the 1923 silent movie Jazzmania
Clown Prince: John Lustig
Original b&w still from 1923’s Jazzmania.
Murray, Mae & Jean Hersholt 1923 (Jazzmania)C_WBackground
QUEEN: So, let me get this straight your majesty! If I marry you will I still be the queen...even if you die mysteriously on the first night of our honeymoon?
KING: Yes! but...why do you ask?
QUEEN: Just checking...for a friend!
Actors Mae Murray and Jean Hersholt in the 1923 silent movie Jazzmania
Clown Prince: John Lustig
Original b&w still from 1923’s Jazzmania.
Murray, Mae & Jean Hersholt 1923 (Jazzmania)C_WBackground
A hint of cleavage in the 1920’s. What’s next? Bare legs to the knees? Scandalous!
As long as we consummate the marriage first. I just want to go out on top!
A. If you didn’t already know, “Rex” means “King” in Latin.
2. I was just-a-few-minutes-ago old when I learned that “consummate” has two m’s. Please speculate wildly as to why!
That is not the way Royal succession works– the national royal succession might provide for her, but the Royal line would mean the existing royal family would put the next heir on the throne and she would get shipped off to keep her out of the true successor’s role. Search using ” rules of royal succession” and be thankful we get to replace people without lineage.
Quiet, she’s rolling
Maybe you should hold off telling him about the life insurance policy.
Pro: it has SO MANY zeroes!!!
Con: Only zeroes….