Ian Smithson
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851 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
Ian Smithson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
You know.
king charles iii became king charles iii the second his mother died by natural inheritance there is no declaration there's a whole lot of formal stuff that has to go to have that recognized but it's instantaneous according to the you know inheritance of the monarchy so yeah oh and she was what early 20s when she became the queen yes yeah she was when she was 25 i think by the time she
He was a child when he assumed the throne of France.
Well, lots of people did, though.
And that's one of those weird things that when you study genealogy or family history...
you realise that the age expectancy is totally biased by two things.
Firstly, infant mortality.
Yeah.
Whereas up until the early 20th century, lots of children, you know, a significant proportion of people died before the age of five.
Dragging the average down.
And men working in manual labour had a much lower life expectancy.
But it's sort of like if you got to 50, you could live till your 90s.
You just had to get out of the danger zone.
Exactly.
There were nearly as many people who, you know, once they reached old age, got to really old age three or four hundred years ago.
I actually think it's probably the reverse.
You reckon?
Yeah.
I think at the moment, you know, now we...
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