英国历史与政治 week one-sunny0904

HistoryandPoliticsoftheUnitedKingdom--------孙丽Whattodotoday?1.Self-introduction2.Audio“what’sauniversityeducationworth?”3.Syllabus(教学大纲)4.Photosoftheroyalfamily5.Q&AWhoarethey?curtsy行屈膝礼Elizabeththesecond:reign1952-presentTheQueen’sDiamondJubileein2012TheQueenistheUnitedKingdom’sHeadofState.Sheisqueenof16formerBritishcolonies,includingAustralia,CanadaandNewZealand,andheadoftheCommonwealthofNations(英联邦）.Elizabeth:meaningGod’spromise,God’sdaughterHermotherisQueenElizabeth,theQueenMothernotElizabethI,theVirginQueen(reignfrom1558to1603)ElizabethIQueenMotherWhatisQueenElizabeth’ssurname?WhoistheQueenmarriedto?Whyisherhusbandaprinceratherthanaking?PrincePhilip,DukeofEdinburgh,sonofPrinceandPrincessAndrewofGreeceandDenmark.UponPhilip’smarriagetoElizabeth,hebecameaBritishcitizenandrenouncedhisGreekandDanishtitles.IntheBritishmonarchy(君主制),thehusbandofafemalemonarch(君主)hasnorecognizedspecialrank.Thehusbandiscalledaprincenotakingbutthewifeofamalemonarchtakesonherhusband’srank,becomingQueen.TheBritishroyalfamilychangedtheirlastnamefromSaxe-Coburg-GothatoWindsorin1917.Why?

WorldWarOnebrokeoutin1914andanti-Germansentimentwasatitsheightin1917.Inprotest,thethenKing,GeorgeVrenouncedalltheGermantitlesbelongingtohimandhisfamilyandadoptedthenameofhiscastle,Windsor.PrinceCharlesPrinceWilliamDukeofCambridgeDuchessofCambridgeCatherineTheDukeandDuchessofCambridgewiththeirsonthedayafterhisbirthPrinceCharles------PrinceWilliam------PrinceGeorgeHeirstothethroneIsPrinceWilliamgoingtobethenextKing?(gossip)AccordingtoAmerica’sGlobe

magazine,QueenElizabethskippedCharles

andnamedWilliamthenextKingbyatopsecretdecree.Globe

revealstheshockingnewscandalsurroundingCharlesthatconvincedtheQueentobypasshimandwhenshewillstepdownallowingWilliamtositontheThrone.What’stheroleoftheroyalfamily?MembersoftheRoyalFamilysupporttheQueeninherStateandnationalduties,aswellascarryingoutimportantworkinpublicandcharitableservices,andhelpingtostrengthennationalunityandstability..TheDukeofEdinburghTheRoyalFamilyiscrucialinsupportingtheworkoftheArmedServices.MembersoftheRoyalFamilyhaveofficialrelationshipswithmanyunitsoftheForces,payingregularvisitstosoldiersservingathomeandabroad.Finally,theRoyalFamilyisalivingsymboloftheUKandadirectlinktoitsextraordinaryhistory.Itasawholestrengthensnationalunity.ThePrinceofWalesWhydoestheroyalfamilyexistintheUnitedKingdom?HowareEngland,Scotland,WalesandNorthernIrelandunitedasonekingdom?WhatistheoriginofafternoonteaintheUK?Whatisthepoliticalsystem