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http://www.calgaryherald.com/Harry+K...133/story.html

A news story from the Telegraph in Britain suggested on Monday that Canada's leading monarchist organization wants to relocate Prince Harry to Ottawa and install him as "king of Canada" -a notion the chairman of the Monarchist League calls "absurd."

"It's not practical, it's not doable and it's not desirable, frankly," says Robert Finch. "I've worked so hard to build up relationships with the palace and Clarence House. They're going to look at this and think, 'What the heck is going on over there?' It makes us look like whackos and that's not who we are."

Quoting a Quebec spokesperson for the league, the Telegraph story suggested Canadian monarchists want Prince William to rotate residence every six months between London and realm countries such as Canada and Australia, or that they want to see various members of the Royal Family doled out like collector's items among Commonwealth countries.

"It's just completely fraught with impracticalities and things most people don't want or care about," Finch says. "Nobody asked the question, 'Hey, Harry, do you want to come to Canada?' Why is anybody going to up and move across the world to live their life?"

He blames an international game of broken telephone for the bizarre story. A league spokesman gave an interview to a French reporter who broached the idea of a different king or queen and the member mentioned fringe ideas that have been floated by a very few people, Finch says, but the British report ran with it as the mainstream view in Canada.

"I think it's the silliest thing people can talk about," Finch says. "That is a discussion that's left for a few -and I mean a very few -academics."

I think someone was watching South Park and thought it was a documentary.