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AMERICAN school kids Wednesday 15 October dipped into the wise pools of wisdom here at LondonNet in a specially arranged live link up.

In an event organised by Arizona company Educational Management Group, LondonNet Editor David Clee (pictured right) was quizzed by sixth grade pupils at Kamehameha Elementary School in Hawaii on the life and times of Diana, Princess of Wales.

But it wasn't just Hawaiian kids who got the chance to hear all about the tragic princess from the heart of the city in which she made her home. Kamehameha is part of a 4,000 strong school network in the US that regularly uses live internet events to help in projects running right across the school curriculum. Such is the interest in Diana that the take up for the session was expected to be high from a potential audience running into hundreds of thousands.

These were the questions (Click for answers):

1. Where does the Windsor family originate? How far back? What family did they succeed?

2. What do the Queen & her husband do all day long?

3. When did the king & Queen lose their original power?

4. How much does the Queen get paid?

5. What is Princess Diana's Lineage? I've heard that her family has a longer line of royalty than the Windsor's. Is that true? How can that be? Why does her brother live in South Africa?

6. What is a 'Blue Blood"? How do you become one? How distantly can one be?

7. Will Charles automatically become King or is it Possible of William to be so chosen? How is it decided?

8. Why does Britain still retain a monarchy?

9. Why does the Prime Meridian run through Greenwich, England? Why did England get to be 0 degrees longitude?

10. Describe Parliament. How is it different from the U. S. Congress?

11. Is retirement by the King or Queen strictly voluntary?

12. Do the English have any unusual customs that Americans would find strange?

13. Was Diana going to marry that Egyptian Prince?

14. Does the King or Queen have any official duties or responsibilities that they absolutely have to do?

15. Does the United Kingdom have a written constitution like America has?

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