People of Bruges have eternal right to fish in British waters

[vetran]

Cling on tight onto the old clichés. They will serve you well in the establishment of Empire 2.0.

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Amazingly they surrendered a few times before WWII.

Italians the same


Neither living up to their Gallic or Roman roots.

[OwlHoot]

A document signed by Charles II has surfaced which grants the people of Bruges the eternal right to fish in British waters
https://twitter.com/GeertBourgeois/s...privilege.html

It was tested in UK courts in the 1960's but no final verdict was made as it has to go to the house of lords which it didn't at the time

Since William of Orange (Charles II's successor after the short reign of James II) was Dutch, maybe we could root through a few more old papers and find the UK has sovereignty over Holland

[northernladyuk]

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Amazingly they surrendered a few times before WWII.

Italians the same


Neither living up to their Gallic or Roman roots.

There you go! That should keep you going through the hard times.

[Eirikur]

Since William of Orange (Charles II's successor after the short reign of James II) was Dutch, maybe we could root through a few more old papers and find the UK has sovereignty over Holland

It would probably be the other way around. The Dutch king is still in line for the English throne (albeit at number 850)

[VectraMan]

It would probably be the other way around. The Dutch king is still in line for the English throne (albeit at number 850)

There must be the odd German relative of Victoria and Albert that are closer than that.

[SueEllen]

There must be the odd German relative of Victoria and Albert that are closer than that.

There is a nice Wikipedia article on it linky