Posted on 07/23/2013 8:34:21 AM PDT by Perdogg
It does, it shows the royals are a jacked up waste of money that England should have gotten rid of a long time ago.
” To my Undead Kitteh list, what do y’all think about this for the new Undead Thread. It’s been a long while since we moved.”
Above average, methinks : )
Darks, a consensus seems to be emerging ... we lieks the new Undead baby.
Beggin’ your pahdon, your grace.
Yes, there’s something verging on the Sophoclean here - the dilemma of the monarch forced to choose between two mutually incompatible duties, to follow either of which at he expense of the other meant inevitable disaster, was one of the central themes of Greek tragedy. But to pursue that analogy would be absurdly to aggrandise the modern British royals, so I’d better stop there....!
Any comment?
The experts in crown geneaology are careful with their jobs, being “by appointment” etc. But in the BBC show they guy was accepting as plausible the potential for Edward the IV being illegitimate... and hence Henry VII marrying Edward’s heiress, Elizabeth of York to “legitimise” himself— did no such thing, since Elizabeth of York was progeny of an illegitimate.
A quick review of the claims and who’s who in it:
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/medbritishwomen/ss/Birth-Controversies-and-the-Wars-of-the-Roses_5.htm
BBC found the “actual” resulting descendent (from the Duke of Clarence) “monarch”
, who had emigrated as a youngster and was living in Australia as a rice farmer. He was a Hastings. He died a couple of years ago, and his son is there. Fascinating show. And the guy was huge, and great sense of humor about it. Photos of the ancestral castle, which was destroyed by Henry VIII (interestingly enough, as was the last Plantagenet,
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