- -----Original Message-----
From: Neil Barnes
To: birthright@MPGN.COM
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - circular vassalage


>
>On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, E Gray wrote:
>> >On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, E Gray wrote:
>> >
>> >There are three meanings of the word prince
>>
>> Actually, it's five.
>>
>> 1. A nonreigning member of a royal family
>> (Prince Andrew? )
>
>Are you sure you don't mean Phil the Greek? Andrew is (still) the son of
>the soverign.


That may be a better example, so let's use it instead

>> 3. The son of a sovereign, or of a son of sovereign
>> (Prince Charles, Henry, William)
>
>Don't forget that Charles is actually Prince of Wales - at one point
>Wales was actually intended as a training ground for future english
>Kings to make their Mistakes in :).


That's merely the title of the actual heir to the British Throne, though
in history it was also the title of the Monarch of Wales..