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

[C19fan]

Dude....Someone needs to do some genealogy and determine given which male relative was cuckolded who should be the proper monarch of the United Kingdom. The current residents of Buckingham might need to be sent packing. Although ultimately it is Parliament who determines the monarch; see the 1701 Act of Succession.

[Cowboy Bob]

Richard III was defeated in battle and overthrown. No relative of his has any right to the thrown. You’d have a better chance restoring the monarchy in France.

[fhayek]

who knows? Maybe it will turn out that this guy is the new king.

[ifinnegan]

Dumbest idea I’ve heard.

Garbage story and probably garbage science.

[Old Sarge]

Whoopsie...

[2ndDivisionVet]

I will hesitantly and uneasily come forward and claim the crown and the hundreds of billions of pounds that go with it.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

BO is, already, King, so, give him to the U.K. Let the U.S. elect Ted Cruz to become the next POTUS!

[Riley]

Watch, it’ll end up being John Goodman.

[gorush]

John of Gaunt had a mistress, Katherine deRoet, from whom the Beauforts descended. (Katherine’s sister, Phillipa, was married, unhappily, to Geoffry Chaucer) Katherine was John’s mistress through two marriages and they married after the second wife’s death. The Church of England eventually gave full privileges to Katherine and John’s bastard children, the Beauforts, from whom the line has descended. (”Katherine” by Anya Seaton, is an entertaining novel covering the whole period)

[KC_Lion]

[Argus]

Current British royal family is entirely German, from House of Hanover and Battenberg. No relation to House of York or Lancaster.

[Resolute Conservative]

Good Golly Miss Molly...

[Tax-chick]

I read that book in my ‘teens. John of Gaunt is one of the key figures of the period, a classic strongman.

Regarding the article, piffle. The connection between the Mountbatten-Windsors and the House of York is completely irrelevant. Parliament made William of Orange king, and Parliament made George of Hanover king.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Wasn’t George I the great grandson of James I?

[gorush]

“Katherine Swynford” by Alison Weir is a more scholarly treatise on the same subject, also worth the read IMHO. (My interest stems in part from my relationship to the deRoet family and part from my love of the study of history...that and $2.00 will get me a cuppa tea anywhere)

[Tax-chick]

my relationship to the deRoet family

Cool! I'm related to Black Jack Pershing.

I read all the historical novels about the queens by Victoria Holt and the Anya Seton ones, when I was a girl, but I haven't picked up many of the more recent biographies.

However, a recent book about Anne Boleyn gave the impression that there's little more fact to the "nonfiction" books than the fiction, because the sources are so limited.

[gorush]

Weir’s book makes that same point about the dearth of information. It all occurred during the great plague outbreaks in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.

[gorush]

The Gaunt in John of Gaunt actually referred to Gent, Belgium. The deRoet’s came from that area. Today, here, the name is Roets.

[Tax-chick]

It was very interesting to read about the sources: what little objective documentary evidence existed, and how sources from a hundred years or more later, with no particular authority, became “facts” about Anne Boleyn, just because they were “old” when the next writer came along.

[Tax-chick]

Huh, I didn’t know that, although I had a vague memory that Katherine and Philippa were from somewhere in continental Europe.