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[oakenguy]

More fun facts from 'The Great Pretenders':


There's apparently a legend that King George III secretly married a Quaker girl, Hannah Lightfoot. If true, this would make his later marriage to Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz invalid, which in turn would mean that everyone who's taken the throne since 1785 has been an usurper.

But wait, there's more! The legend says that Hannah and George had children! At least one of whom, George Rex (heh), moved to South Africa and married two native women!

Unfortunately, it's a legend that isn't backed up by the evidence. But there's something really, really scrumptious about typing the sentence "The rightful ruler of England is a black South African."

Ooo. It tingles.

Comments

[saltygoodness.livejournal.com]

There's also an Australian who somebody traced the lineage of, and he should probably be the rightful ruler as well. There were lots of children that weren't acknowledged for whatever reason, and they had kids, and they had kids...we're ALL the rightful rulers of England!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find someone who could claim descent from Edgar Atheling since clearly all English monarchs since 1066 have been impostors.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to pose something like this, except, I bet you could go even earlier.

Hmmm. Makes me wonder if anyone has gone back and traced the succession using one absolute rule to see who would be the 'true' monarch, by blood ties.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Its hard to go back further because for most of the period prior to 1066 the succession was not necessarily primogeniture in the male line.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

I think I might have to read this book after your description of the weirdos in it :) It reminds me a lot of "fantastic" archaeology

[volare.livejournal.com]

that. is. awesome.

makes for a smirk-inducing mental pic, oh yes.

thanks...

[sumimasen-kiyo.livejournal.com]

LMFAO :D