[afraidfortherepublic]

The revelation explains why the Scottish father of Eliza's children suddenly deserted her and sent their daughter, Katherine, to Britain at the age of six

This statement needs further explanation. Were they not married? Was there another wife in England? Was there any Armenian DNA found? Did the researchers look for that? What happened to the other children? So many questions....inquiring minds....

[grania]

Some of those historical novels of victorian England get into it. One contention is that "fatherhood" was not to be taken seriously after a second child born to the nobility. And princess Di's gene's getting influenced by a romp by some ancestor in India? Not surprising or even shocking.

All this DNA testing in a way is messing up natural selection.