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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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.
Dumbest idea I’ve heard.
Garbage story and probably garbage science.
Whoopsie...
BO is, already, King, so, give him to the U.K. Let the U.S. elect Ted Cruz to become the next POTUS!
Watch, it’ll end up being John Goodman.
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)
Current British royal family is entirely German, from House of Hanover and Battenberg. No relation to House of York or Lancaster.
Good Golly Miss Molly...
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.
Wasn’t George I the great grandson of James I?
“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)
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.
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.
The Gaunt in John of Gaunt actually referred to Gent, Belgium. The deRoet’s came from that area. Today, here, the name is Roets.
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.
Huh, I didn’t know that, although I had a vague memory that Katherine and Philippa were from somewhere in continental Europe.
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