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Does Richard III's DNA question the Queen's right to the throne? Analysis reveals relative of
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 2, 2014 | Fiona McCrae and Sarah Griffiths

Posted on 12/02/2014 11:06:51 AM PST by C19fan

He was one of the nation’s most notorious monarchs in life, and Richard III is still creating controversy more than 500 years after his death. Genetic analysis of a skeleton discovered beneath a car park in Leicester three years ago has confirmed it did indeed belong to the last Plantagenet king. Much more intriguingly, it held a secret that could shake the foundations of the Tudor dynasty. The genetic discovery even raises a question mark over the current Queen’s royal heritage. DNA analysis revealed that one of Richard III’s male relatives was cuckolded - leading to his wife giving birth to another man’s child. Depending on just who was unfaithful, it could have far-reaching consequences.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: gameofthrones; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; kingrichardiii; leicester; monarchy; monarchysucks; plantagenets; richardiii; royalty; thereisnoroyalty
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To: colorado tanker

Or maybe she was just lucky to be chunky, big-nosed, and not very clean. Imagine what could have happened if he had liked her!


41 posted on 12/02/2014 3:05:16 PM PST by Tax-chick (R.I.P., Dad, 11/25/14. Thanks for the lawyers, guns, and money.)
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To: Tax-chick
LOL!

The good news is Henry paid top dollar for the Queen's new attendant from France, the bad news is he's a . . . .

42 posted on 12/02/2014 3:08:32 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Right.


43 posted on 12/02/2014 3:09:21 PM PST by Tax-chick (R.I.P., Dad, 11/25/14. Thanks for the lawyers, guns, and money.)
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To: colorado tanker

His rule was established based upon his victory in battle. His enduring line was due to uniting the factions after the victory.

Tudors were Welsh that came about when Owen married the widow of Henry the fifth, a French princess. No Plantagenet blood at all on the male side. Henry Tudor, Henry the VII, received some credibility from his mother, a great-great grand daughter of Edward III.

By marrying Edward IV’s daughter, he was uniting the Yorkist side of the War of the Roses with his Lancaster heritage in an effort to end the terrible war and solidify his claim.

Dan Jones follows up his Plantagenet book with the War of the Roses and paints a picture of that bloody era.


44 posted on 12/02/2014 3:28:37 PM PST by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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To: KC Burke

The Wars of the Roses were very bloody indeed.


45 posted on 12/02/2014 3:36:23 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: KC Burke
Well less uniting, than exterminating almost all Yorkist claimants.

As a result of which, even if the Gauntian illegitimacy is a fact, that merely makes Henry Tudor an usurper.

But Henry VIII becomes the legitimate Yorkist king though descent from his mother, Elizabeth of York.

And his sister, Margaret Queen of Scots, continues the York linage in the Suarts.

So no change.

46 posted on 12/02/2014 7:21:58 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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To: C19fan

Interesting! Thanks!


47 posted on 12/03/2014 8:56:04 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 12/02/2014. Thanks C19fan.

48 posted on 06/28/2015 1:34:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Tax-chick; Old Sarge; KC_Lion
I knew it!
Itchy Brother has been
The Rightful King
of Bongo Congo
all along!

(Note sacks of payola!)


49 posted on 06/28/2015 2:01:37 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: SunkenCiv
"Note: this topic is from 12/02/2014."

NOW you tell me!

50 posted on 06/28/2015 2:05:36 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: C19fan
so now the question:

In the painting below, the king is wearing a jeweled gold piece that seems too large to be called a necklace. it fits over his shoulders and drapes over his chest. What is it called?

I have been watching the the series the Tudors and all the males in Henry VIII's court wear one. Some are more elaborate and some lack jewels.


51 posted on 06/28/2015 2:25:26 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: shibumi

*snicker*

Sometimes it’s interesting to look back. I was making sense on this thread, even though I’d probably had quite a bit to drink, since my father had just died.


52 posted on 06/28/2015 2:25:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

BO is the pretender to the throne of Africa


53 posted on 06/28/2015 2:26:59 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“No relative of his has any right to the thrown.”

Some claim rights to the throne but to be thrown might be a bit much.


54 posted on 06/28/2015 2:57:28 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: shibumi

55 posted on 06/28/2015 3:02:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: bert

It’s a chain of office.


56 posted on 06/28/2015 3:05:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: C19fan; SunkenCiv

Interesting, considering in those days cuckolding the King was considered treason, punishable by a traitors death.


57 posted on 06/29/2015 4:42:08 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

I’ve got Michael Wood’s “The Story of England” playing in the next room, a while ago they were recounting a (translated to modern English) 12th c report of a mass execution of “thieves”, some of whom were blinded and castrated before hanging. Effin’ Normans.


58 posted on 06/29/2015 5:58:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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Michael Wood
Story of England
BBC

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Romans to Normans
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kx8t9_bbc-michael-woods-story-of-england-1of6-romans-to-normans-pdtv-xvid-ac3-mvgroup-org_tech

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Domesday to Magna.Carta
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kx8oj_bbc-michael-woods-story-of-england-2of6-domesday-to-magna-carta-pdtv-xvid_tech

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The Great Famine and the Black Death
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kx8q6_bbc-michael-woods-story-of-england-3of6-the-great-famine-and-the-black-death-pdtv-xvid_tech

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Peasants Revolt to Tudors
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kxbm2_bbc-michael-woods-story-of-england-4of6-peasants-revolt-to-tudors-pdtv-xvid-ac3-mvgroup-org_tech

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Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kxbnd_bbc-michael-woods-story-of-england-5of6-henry-viii-to-the-industrial-revolution-pdtv-xvid-ac3-mvgrou_tech

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Victoria to the Present Day
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kxboa_bbc-michael-woods-story-of-england-6of6-victoria-to-the-present-day-pdtv-xvid-ac3-mvgroup-org_tech

video search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+story+of+england&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv


59 posted on 06/29/2015 6:06:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv
The movie and play Becket had Henry and his barons saying some awful things about Saxon dogs, scum, etc.

The ironic thing was that Thomas a Becket was Norman, not Saxon. When the playwright found that out she didn't change anything because she thought the story played better if Thomas was a Saxon. One would have thought she would know that a Becket is not a Saxon name.

60 posted on 06/30/2015 3:00:14 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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