OK, so Benjamin Franklin didn't mention the latter, but I couldn't help but think it as I sat through episode after episode of "The Prince," HBO Max's new cartoon spoofing the royal family.

Charles Edward Stuart, or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' as he became known, was the grandson of the deposed Catholic King James II - who had fled to France from Protestant William of Orange's invading ...

He's Prince George's hero next door ... talking about his first cartoon project SuperTed, that led to London firefighter Dave Jones getting the ball rolling in the early 1980s.