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Queen Victoria illegitimate, biographer says
The Globe and Mail ^
| 2002-09-01
Posted on 09/01/2002 6:27:36 PM PDT by Lessismore
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To: Sam Cree; Lessismore
Well, I think this is, like, "who cares" anyway. I disagree. I think the whole thing could be fascinating. There was a "rush" so to speak to produce an heir which turned out to be Victoria.
But the implications of the hemophilia go beyond that. Victoria's great-great-grandson Alexis, son of Czar Nicholas and Alexandra (Victoria's grandaughter) was a hemophiliac. Doctors could do nothing for him, but Rasputin could and that's how he gained the confidence of Nicholas and Alexandra.
Victoria was also the grandmother of Kaiser Wilhelm.
It's pure speculation of course. But I think it's fascinating if you consider that the Kaiser and Alexandra (thus Rasputin) would not have been in the picture.
To: Lessismore
A book to be published this week says that Britain's Queen Victoria may have been illegitimate, possibly undermining the whole Royal Family's legitimacyGee, can I survive such earth shattering news....
To: Lessismore
It won't effect the legitimacy of the royal family. William the Conqueror was illegitimate too don'tcha know.
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posted on
09/01/2002 11:34:34 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: Lessismore
the illness porphyria a hereditary disorder of body metabolism once ran in the Royal FamilyPorphyria is the illness mentioned in The Madness of King George -- the illness that drove him insane and turned his pee pea green, if I remember correctly from the movie.
-- "One may produce a copious, regular evacuation every day of the week and still be a stranger to reason."
To: Utopia
There was a heck of a good book written about the death of Napoleon a few years ago. The author surmised that Napoleon was slowly poisoned through his wine by arsenic put there by an agent of the Bourbon monarchy, to ensure that there was no chance of his escaping from St. Helena.
Regards,
To: x
I refer you to certain precincts in Appalachia and the Ozarks, where "close" breeding results in some very nasty recessive traits surfacing.
To: Lessismore
You don't have to dig her up or even do DNA testing. Just look at the pictures and paintings of her through her life--By her own admission she thought she had inherited the ugliness of the Hanovers...she looks just like her father the duke of whatever.
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posted on
09/02/2002 7:33:56 AM PDT
by
soozer47
To: Corin Stormhands
OK, point conceded.
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posted on
09/02/2002 7:38:07 AM PDT
by
Sam Cree
To: Sam Cree
OK, point conceded. Well, that said, it is sort of a Jerry Springer / Trailer-trash with jewelry sort of fascination...
To: Corin Stormhands
The public
does seem to have an endless fascination with the personal lives of the royal family.
'Course, the family seems to provide plenty of fodder for the tabloids.
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posted on
09/02/2002 9:08:37 AM PDT
by
Sam Cree
To: Lessismore; MadIvan
Hmmm, more arguments for an american style republic with checks and balances.
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posted on
09/02/2002 9:59:04 AM PDT
by
Cacique
To: Lessismore
Thought that British censors existed so that we would all be shielded from this kind of stuff ;-].
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posted on
09/02/2002 10:08:15 AM PDT
by
SteveH
To: Cacique
"Hmmm, more arguments for an american style republic with checks and balances."I keep writing the checks, sending them to Washington, and NOTHING seems to balance down there ... where do you live? LOL &;-)
To: Cacique
Hmmm, more arguments for an american style republic with checks and balances. How so? Her Majesty serves at the pleasure of the people of Britain anyway. Should she displease us, out she goes. As Charles I amply demonstrated.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
09/02/2002 11:07:54 AM PDT
by
MadIvan
Note: this topic is from 9/01/2002. Cue the Debby McClatchy (99% sure no one will get that, or even see that). Thanks Lessismore.
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posted on
11/15/2015 10:33:07 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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