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  • Queen Victoria illegitimate, biographer says

    09/01/2002 6:27:36 PM PDT · by Lessismore · 34 replies · 594+ views
    London — A book to be published this week says that Britain's Queen Victoria may have been illegitimate, possibly undermining the whole Royal Family's legitimacy, the Sunday Times reported. In his book The Victorians, acclaimed biographer A.N. Wilson alleges that Victoria's mother, Princess Victoire of Leiningen, had a lengthy affair with her Irish-born secretary Sir John Conroy and that he, rather than Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, was Victoria's real father. Buckingham Palace said it would not comment on the allegation. Mr. Wilson based his argument partly on medical data, the newspaper said. Records show that the illness porphyria...
  • ZOT! The Peerage

    07/20/2004 1:45:03 PM PDT · by jesterbr549 · 680 replies · 3,364+ views
    The Horizon ^ | July 9, 2004 | David Hill
    The Peerage by David Hill The Royal Factor in Presidential Elections There is some information that the American Public should be made aware of when it comes time to cast their vote for the Presidential Candidates this fall. It is a KNOWN FACT, according to Burke's Peerage, that the Presidential Candidate with the most Royal Blood ALWAYS WINS THE ELECTION. In an article dated October 25, 2000 and which, apparently, originated with ABC News from London (URL below) via reporter Tony Eufinger, they had this to say about our elections, "'The presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes...