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In 1605 we had a fellow, name of Guido Fawkes, or Guy Fawkes, one of nine conspirators, who attempted to blow up The King, Parliament and the whole rotten shebang. Sadly he was caught, interrogated, tried, found guilty and was hanged, drawn and quartered.It is a little hard to fathom how England, a country that has led the way in so many fields, still has something as anachronic as princes, kings, and queens.
Nowadays with our sorry mess over politics in general we have a very popular text that is going around, so having given you the backdrop you might understand the gist of this amusing ditty: