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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 368328, member: 2844"]That was true for many empires, remember, most western European countries had colonies and protectorates around the globe. The term had already been used for the empire of our Low Countries king Charles V, who became known as Spain's king Charles I. He was born in Gent, present day Belgium, in 1500.</p><p>Victorian England's restrictive moral rules didn't even reach as far as the Scottish Highlands.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Non-English speaking countries, some with their own 'never setting sun empires', were even less impressed by those funny English.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 368328, member: 2844"]That was true for many empires, remember, most western European countries had colonies and protectorates around the globe. The term had already been used for the empire of our Low Countries king Charles V, who became known as Spain's king Charles I. He was born in Gent, present day Belgium, in 1500. Victorian England's restrictive moral rules didn't even reach as far as the Scottish Highlands.;) Non-English speaking countries, some with their own 'never setting sun empires', were even less impressed by those funny English.[/QUOTE]
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