Enough of this American political silliness, on to some real news. . .

Princess Alexandra of Hanover, age 19, has been removed from the British Royal Line of Succession.

Will outrages never cease?

Okay, you've never heard of Princess Alexandra and I hadn't until yesterday, but she was distantly in the line of succession to the crown of the United Kingdom.  Distantly.  She's the daughter of the Princess Caroline of Monaco and Prince Ernst August of the House of Hanover.  King George III, as you will recall, was King of Hanover as well as King of England, Scotland, Walesa and Ireland.  William IV was the last English king to also be the King of Hanover, as when Queen Victoria became that, it separated the lines and Ernst August. . . an earlier one who was the son of King George III, became the King of Hanover.  It backed the wrong side in the wars with Prussia and was later absorbed by it, and of course all the German monarchies bit the dust in 1918.

So she'll never been Queen of Hanover.

But she could have been Queen of England but for her deciding to convert to her mother's faith, Catholicism.  She was baptized as a Lutheran, like her father, but changed her faith's and was just recently confirmed a Catholic.  So now she's out of the running.