When Brexit happened my step dad was forced to leave Scotland. Since I have no friends and he is just about the only relative I have who doesn't want to literally kill me for the heinous crime of existing, I chose to leave with him. I've been living in Sweden for the past several years. I try to keep up with stuff in Britain, but it's pretty miserable news all-round these days.
I only know of Chris Hoy from the Horne Section song.
Okay, yeah. That's about what the Jacobites would've had at Culloden. Probably brass rather than iron. They were light 3-pounders they took from the defeated British at Falkirk. They were incredibly ineffective at Culloden and were only able to get off one or two shots for each piece.
While something in the romance of the Jacobite cause stirs me, I have to admit that the Stuarts themselves -- James VII/II, James Francis Edward, and Bonnie Prince Charlie -- were truly unappealing people.
I recently found a concept album about the Williamite Wars -- a Jacobite rising in Ireland in the 1680s and early 1690s after the Glorious Revolution, famous for the Battle of the Boyne -- at a local charity shop, and I pondered my very mixed feelings about the Glorious Revolution. I can like driving James II from the throne and the Constitutional changes on the one hand while also not liking William on the other. At times I wonder if a successful Monmouth's Rebellion in 1685 might've been better over the long term.
To bring this back to Doctor Who, Patrick Troughton played Septimus Saxon in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel about the Monmouth Rebellion, Micah Clarke, shortly before he died. I've not heard the adaptation, and the novel itself is a dull Victorian doorstopper.
Two, counting the one on his head.
Apparently even the Irish troops at the battle of the Boyne called James “Seamus (the Irish for James) an cac” - “Seamus the shite.” “Swap kings and we’ll fight again”, was the lament.
Blimey, wasn't expecting this. Chris Hoy is the new Doctor.
(Actually it's a promo for the Commonwealth Games which will be taking place in Glasgow.)
And we also got a Sylvester McCoy appearance and the King and Queen coming out of the Tardis to arrive at the Opening Ceremony.
They're lucky they didn't land next weeked in time for the closing ceremonies cos we all know what the Doctor and the TARDIS are like....
Still don't know who Chris Hoy is (or that other bloke).
I love Sylvester's goatee!
Then Prince Charles watched Doctor Who in the 60s. There was thought at one time that he might have recordings of some of the missing episodes.
I got to say, seeing the King emerge from the TARDIS is very surreal feeling, but I love it!
If so and he refuses to let the public see them, then I dislike him all the more!
He doesn't.If so and he refuses to let the public see them, then I dislike him all the more!
Neither does Ringo Starr, and he did have Doctor Who recordings. They were burned in a shed fire in the 70s.
Fair enough.
Yeah, I knew that story. That breaks my heart on multiple levels.
I find the word “shed” to be very British
Shed is a pretty common American word (and building!) too.
I didn't think they were actually going to do it
Does go to show just how ingrained in the British consciousness Who is.
I know.
