Willy Willy Harry Stee....
As many of you know from reading my bio, when I was in college I learned a little rhyme that lists the Kings & Queens of England in order. Useless to some. Not at all useless to a romance novelist who might, at any moment, in the absence of Wikipedia, be required to call on such vast historical knowledge.And so...today...I give you the poem that will impress your friends, send your enemies cowering in the corner, and quite possibly win you a friendly game of Trivial Pursuit.
Willy, Willy, Harry, Stee,Join us next week, on Randomness from Sarah's Brain!
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three.
One, two, three Ned, Richard two,
Harrys four, five, six.
Then who?
Edwards four and five, Dick the bad,
Harry's twain, Ned six, the lad.
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
then Charlie, Charlie, James again.
Will & Mary, Anna Gloria,
Georges four, Will four, Victoria.
Edward seven next, and then
came George the Fifth in 1910.
Ned the eighth soon abdicated,
then George the sixth was coronated,
After which, Elizabeth!
and 'that's all folks'until her death!
Labels: randomness, research
posted by Sarah MacLean at
6:42 PM
5 Comments:
Haha, this is great! Thanks, Sara!
Bless you for this. I was trying to remember which of my online friends had said they had such a poem, and coming up blank, but I really wanted to learn it!
It will take some practice to remember all that! I wish we had learned that in modern European History in high school or my class on the History of London in London!
@QNPB...it saved the day a number of times during my Early English History and Shakespeare Histories classes!
@Kelly...you should learn it! Then we can be history nerds together!
There was a lot of Harry's. And Williams. And Edwards. And Ned. James. Charlies. AGHHH didn't they have any imagination in names back then? =P
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