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To: AnotherUnixGeek

In another age this would get you a title - viscount perhaps - and an estate.

A good custom that should be revived.


20 posted on 05/19/2023 8:26:57 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

In Charles II’s day, and at other times, illegitimate children became Dukes and got massive estates. It’s hard to believe that kings had all that land to give away. I guess they got it from various rebels.

By the time of William IV, illegitimate offspring didn’t get honors or inheritances as big as that — he had too many of them — but did get a good start in their careers. Victorianism, the press, and parliamentary control of finances killed off all that.


47 posted on 05/19/2023 9:27:27 AM PDT by x
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