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Thetford Forest ✓
King's Lynn ✓
Gog Magog Downs ✓
Household shopping ✓
Completely clean kitchen ✓ (Many thanks to Dad who spontaneously helped with a lot of things)
Beat dad at pool ✓✓ (✗✗✗)
Know Kings of England ✓ (Henry II ✗ William IV ✗)

ETA: Good vegetarian food at Heydon ✓ (Thanks Mobbsy!)
ETA: Know Kings of England ✓

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Families:
Norman conquest.
Matilda marrying Goeff Plantagenet.
Edward III's descendents being split into Lancaster (John of Gaunt, Henry Bollingbrook, and many Henrys) and York (many Edwards plus Richard III).
Lancastrian Henry Tudor.
James Stewart from Scotland.
Cromwell.
William of Orange.
George I from Hanover.
Victoria married Bert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, aka Guelf.
George V changed the name to Winsor.
Elizabeth married Prince Philip Mountbatten aka Battenberg aka Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, making the new name Mountbatten-Winsor.

[thethirdvoice.livejournal.com]

First names (as learned at primary school - I hope it's right!)

Willie, Willie, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry 3,
1, 2, 3 Neds, Richard 2,
Harry 4, 5 ,6, Then who?

Edward 4, 5, Dick the bad,
Harries twain and Ned the lad,
Mary, Bessie, James the Vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again.

William and Mary, Anna Gloria,
4 Georges, William and Victoria,
Teddy, George, Teddy, George,
Elizabeth the Second, at present no more!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is indeed. That's nice. I split between giving them affectionate nicknames, and remembering key important kings -- everyone round Henry VIII for a few monarchs I can remember because I remember what happened.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

My memory of that rhyme always gets stuck, rather appositely, after `Then who?'

(S)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with the pre-Norman kings, eh?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

They're harder to remember, because people pay less attention to them in school :) (But have better names, like "Sven Forkbeard" and "Edward the Confessor" rather than "Teddy" and "Lackland" :)) I'd certainly like to know them too. Also, all these apparently really are descended from each other, so it's a nice stopping point.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I bet you don't even have Louis.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's great. Are the footnotes in the canonical order of symbols? :)

No, indeed, I missed him completely. I was generally content to have a general outline, and so long as I had an unbroken succession of at least one king covering any period, I didn't worry yet if there were fractal interruptions (aka "wars of the roses" :)). For instance, so long as I remembered where it was, I didn't worry if I got one, two or no Cromwells. Nor how many I got before William I. Nor if I counted Henry VI only once, although he was briefly reinstated by Warwick the Kingmaker during the reign on Edward IV.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I also missed out

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I also missed out <a href-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Young_King>Henry II¹/₂</a>

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

James Stuart, not James Stewart. Using the English (or at least Border) spelling of the name for a Scottish king is a bit silly.

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

(Yeah, I know it's a bit more complicated than this, but by 1701 this is accurate enough)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Doh, it was a typo, honest! :)

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Quote fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

ROFL. I hadn't even intended that, it must happen subconsciously :)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

"What is a Plantagenet ? Do you agree ?"

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

No.

Yours sincerely,

edward@plantage.net

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

How about dates? :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Sure, you pick the restaurant? :)