{"id":34697,"date":"2022-09-08T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34697"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:52:54","slug":"queen-elizabeths-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/queen-elizabeths-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth’s Death …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… considering how long she was monarch, makes you think.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of people in the British Empire were born during her lifespan, and there can not be very many people in this world that remember the time before she was born. She has been monarch for longer than most people have lived. I remember as a child seeing film of her coronation, so I have a sense that I remember that, but it is of course a false memory. What I’m remembering is some anniversary jubilee or celebration, which involved a major parade and the showing of films of her coronation.<\/p>\n

There are some 68 entries on the lists of English or UK monarchs. Some are disputed, but that’s not my fight, so I count them when I consider who has been in this situation in the past. Also, we assume that the list REALLY goes back to King Arthur and early kings or queens are missing, to the extent that any of them actually existed.<\/p>\n

The average time on the throne across these centuries is about 16.3 years. Some 11 throne-sitters spend less than a year (sometimes just a few days) in that position, 16 less than 3 years.<\/p>\n

The time-on-throne for Queen Elizabeth exceeded record-setter Queen Victoria, the former at 70 years and the latter at an impressive 63 years. Only five monarchs held the position for 50 years or more. They say that when Queen Victoria died, there was a sort of extra trauma across the British Empire, since she had bee queen for so long. I believe they invented a “Queens Day” to allow people to continue to celebrate her even though she was pass\u00e9 in the truest sense of the term.<\/p>\n

The distribution of years-on-throne is no more normal than having a person on a throne is these days. Indeed, it is quite like a poisson distribution with all the “zero values” being MISSING VALUE as one might imagine is the case for pretenders and would-be throne-sitters. (Sorry, inside stats joke.) How long you are on the throne is a function of the chance of a bad thing (ie death or displacement) happening, plus average age of dethronement. So, this:<\/p>\n

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Dumb Excel histogram of time on English\/UK throne ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also, finally, I have a direct(ish) connection to the British Monarchy, finally. My friend and former advisor-type in grad school, David Pilbeam, was for a time Charles’s tutor, I believe at Trinity. I may have some details wrong.<\/p>\n

British Life Expectancy<\/a> for males is about 79.3 years, so Charles will not be King as long as his mom was Queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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