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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"expired without issue" has a whole different meaning to historians/nobility/royalty:

explanation of the joke

expire: die
issue: children
and thus:
expire without issue: die childless

which is a problem with royalties since it means their line of succession ends.