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public had realised there would be no trips to the Spanish Costas for them. So we ended up using the grotty small hotels that many people had been evicted from and slowly filtering people into the system as space became available - which some did, as councils started to work out who had been lost.
     
    One of the most interesting conundrums of the Dislocation was the position of the Elector of Hannover, Frederick Lewis [31] .  Some people say that things would have been considerably easier if he had been dislocated with the rest of the Hannoverians. They forget that it would have changed the balance of power in Northern Germany, eventually uniting Hannover and Braunschweig whilst increasing the power of Prussia due to the complex House rules over the various possessions in the area. It would have also left Ireland - technically - in the hands of the Queen of Prussia, who may not have been so amenable - and her husband certainly wouldn’t have been amenable at all; it was not in his nature, even after we had placed him on medication for porphyria.
     
    However, there was also the issue of Frederick Lewis’ British rights. No matter what some mad people said, he wasn’t King - the Queen reigned and therefore there was no vacancy. However what was also blindingly apparent was that he was, under the Act of Succession, the heir to the throne. In fact Prince Charles had technically been shoved down to about tenth, after the the various Hohenzollerns and Braunschweig's. Quintin and I discussed the situation of the colonial possessions and, after much reading of texts, we came to the conclusion that the because the Queen reigned in the UK, she reigned in the colonies. However, this was subject to some dispute; there were other interpretations, some of which were very petty in the making and some of which would make the basis for a good Master’s dissertation.
     
    However, that did leave the question of Ireland, which was much more difficult. The Irish situation was much, much more in Frederick’s favour: the Kingdom of Ireland was separate, it held its own accession councils, the personal union was not really on any legal footing. To be absolutely honest, he was the rightful King of Ireland - which, looking at his history, left us with some very interesting challenges in front of us, especially considering how critical Ireland was becoming to our thinking with regards to food. This was distinctly a problem that we would have to deal with, and fairly quickly; it didn’t seem like a priority compared to all the other problems of the Dislocation, but it proved to be an expensive problem in the end - although good for both Ireland and Hannover.
     
    What has been interesting is how the British people have taken to the man - his concentration on trying to be modern, his enthusiasm for sport, his ability to not take himself too seriously and to provide plenty of newspaper copy means that he has going from being a Cuckoo in the Royal Nest to probably the fourth most popular member of the family. The UK needs a proper Playboy Prince every now and again to delight them, but I think people have started to realise since the Pragmatic War just how effective he actually is as a ruler. Mrs Thatcher, however, still loathes him, and feelings towards him within The Firm are somewhat mixed.
     
    One of the more interesting items that had come to light by this time was that the weather patterns were those of the 1730’s; at least, they were a good enough match for observed weather from the Met Office’s copious archives for us to be confident in what was happening. This made a lot of boffins very happy, and proved both to be a boon and a curse for the government. Actually knowing the rough pattern of the weather for the next few years was terribly useful, but on the other hand the weather of the 1730’s was dreadful, with some real stinkers of years coming up. However, it did allow for some medium term planning to use crops more suited to