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I am talking about three different traditions.
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I have discussed the first one with another person on this thread while working on the very first question. That tradition I believe has been broken twice but only once within the last six monarch.
I doubt I'll be spending too much time on this one. I'll just wait for the answer and be happy with my .01 point.
Good luck all.
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Well, once a tradition is broken it is broken. If another person repeats the deed within (relatively) short time there's nothing to break anymore.
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So if the next monarch continued the tradition as it would have been if not for the deeds of the previous, it is still not tradition? How many times will it need to be done in order to cal lit a tradition again?
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Yes, it is a tradition. Actually two of the three traditions were reinstated (to various degrees) by the following royals.
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But when a tradition is "rebroken" within 100 years it's not as big a deal.
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I'll take a stab at it with: Victoria changed the reverse of a coin with "Una and the lion" George V went of the gold standard during the Napoleonic wars and Elizabeth II changed to the decimal system. Probably don't stand a chance, but you made me do homework, so mission accomplished!   |
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... a long standing tradition concerning royal imagery ... Read: it's something about their personal appearance, i.e. their effigy. |
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i.e. their effigy Gross!  |
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Scooby, none of your three "things" were about the effigies, I'll accept the responsibility of stating the question poorly, that answer of yours didn't count, you're still in the running today!
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Actually, I do recall you referring to their "effigy", but all the coins had them from the neck up.
It just got lost in my search for traditions that were broken and I forgot about it.
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not sure why 'effigy' is used. Is it not a bust?
effigy [ˈe›feªdÊ'eª]
n pl -gies
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a portrait of a person, esp as a monument or architectural decoration
2. a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang in effigy)
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bust 1 (bst)
n.
1. A sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders, and upper chest.
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Sorry, just exercising my right to weavus.
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