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Indian said to be first in line to lost French throne
ZeeNews ^ | 04 March 2007 | ZeeNews

Posted on 03/05/2007 5:22:41 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman

Balthazar Napolean de Bourbon, a jovial Indian lawyer and part-time farmer settled in Bhopal, has been told that he is the first in line to the lost French throne.

According to media reports, "Bourbon may soon make his first trip to Paris, after he was visited by a relative of Prince Philip, who told him that he is the first in line to the lost French throne."

This Indian father of three is being feted as the long-lost descendant of the Bourbon kings who ruled France from the 16th century to the French revolution. A distant cousin of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, he is alleged to be not only related to the current Bourbon king of Spain and the Bourbon descendants still in France, but to have more claim than any of them to the French crown.

Prince Michael of Greece, the cousin of Prince Philip, this week published a historical novel called Le Rajah de Bourbon, which traces the swashbuckling story of Bourbon's first royal ancestor in India.

Prince Michael believes Jean de Bourbon was a nephew of the first Bourbon French king, Henry IV. In the mid-16th century Jean embarked on an action-packed adventure across the world which saw him survive assassination attempts and kidnap by pirates to be sold at an Egyptian slave market and serve in the Ethiopian army.

In 1560, he turned up at the court of the Mogul emperor Akbar. It was the beginning of a long line of Bourbons in India, who centuries later would serve as the administrators of Bhopal and become the second most important family in the region.

Michael of Greece, who lives in Paris and is of Bourbon descent believes his work on his newfound Indian "cousins" is more than just the latest whimsy in a history of attempts to uncover relatives of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

"If I am right - and I don't have absolute proof, but I completely believe in my theory - then Balthazar Bourbon would be the eldest in the line," he told the Guardian.

"This is the cherry on the cake. Bourbon is head of a decent, dignified, middle-class Indian family. They look so Indian and yet bear this name. When you look at them, it seems incredible. The more unbelievable it is, the more I believe in it."

He said several of his royal relatives in Spain and France were "quite excited and thrilled to have found a new branch". He was in favour of a DNA test, perhaps from a surviving lock of Bourbon hair, to establish the facts. When his sister went to France on holiday she visited a castle once owned by Bourbon kings. It was closed to the public but she showed her Indian passport with the Bourbon name and was allowed in.


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To: mainepatsfan
He'll have to fight it out with Napoléon VII Charles.

...or I'll see your king & raise you an emperor...

21 posted on 03/05/2007 11:05:18 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: kalee

They were both awful.


22 posted on 03/05/2007 11:05:57 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan

Can't be any worse than that barf-fest "The Necklace"


23 posted on 03/05/2007 11:07:17 AM PST by najida (One day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

He would be better of if he claimed he knocked up Anna Nicole Smith.


24 posted on 03/05/2007 11:11:09 AM PST by U S Army EOD (Support your local EOD Detachment)
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To: Tallguy

I wonder if there are any of Maximilian's heirs laying claim to the Mexican throne?


25 posted on 03/05/2007 11:14:42 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: najida

They're neck and neck.


26 posted on 03/05/2007 11:16:22 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan
I wonder if there are any of Maximilian's heirs laying claim to the Mexican throne?

Was Maximilian (late emperor of Mexico) a Habsburg? I think he was. There are quite a few of them still kicking around I think.

27 posted on 03/05/2007 11:17:20 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

Yes he was.


28 posted on 03/05/2007 11:19:36 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: FLOutdoorsman

29 posted on 03/05/2007 11:22:59 AM PST by xp38
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To: mainepatsfan

Lordy,
that movie was so bad. I was waiting for Marie to start chewing gum and break in to Valleygirl speak.


30 posted on 03/05/2007 11:25:31 AM PST by najida (One day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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To: FLOutdoorsman
Man, they're outsourcing everything these days.
31 posted on 03/05/2007 11:26:03 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: najida
In the Kirsten Dunst movie half of it was dedicated to Marie and Louis' small talk at dinner and in bed. Very exciting. /s
32 posted on 03/05/2007 11:28:06 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Now we are even outsourcing pretenders to the throne to India.


33 posted on 03/05/2007 1:47:27 PM PST by Cavalcabo (Sancte Michael, defende nos in proelio, contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

The really good bourbon is Tennessee sipping whisky....some call it Black Jack or


34 posted on 03/05/2007 1:51:22 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P.)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

35 posted on 03/05/2007 2:52:04 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ( for those in Rio Linda, there's conservapedia)
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To: SunkenCiv

If the French people (er, non-Muslim French people) become desperate enough for a national unifying fixture, reinstallation of the monarchy is an effective option.


36 posted on 03/05/2007 7:35:20 PM PST by Ciexyz (Is the American voter smarter than a fifth grader?)
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To: mainepatsfan
I wonder if there are any of Maximilian's heirs laying claim to the Mexican throne?
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Actually Mexico started off as a monarchy before it became a republic. Here's the first imperial family's story. (Nowadays everybody's got a website.)

Imperial House of Mexico
37 posted on 03/06/2007 12:51:15 AM PST by Cheburashka ( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: Cincinna

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38 posted on 06/16/2010 7:56:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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Thanks, Civ.

I have heard this story before, and read portions of the book. Interesting.

Geneology is fascinating and an important tool in understanding Western History.

Surely the family that calls themselves the heirs to the throne of France, Henri, Comte de Paris, part of a loathsome monarchist family full o adulterers and divorced people. Henri refuses to communicate with his own father and sold the family jewels and properties at auction.


39 posted on 06/16/2010 10:10:38 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * ? * RYAN * 2012)
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To: Shimmer128

Il est difficile d’être humble quand vous êtes français.

:)


40 posted on 06/17/2010 2:59:45 AM PDT by aimee5291
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