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Queen Elizabeth Ii A Phoney!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Tue Jan 6, 2004 @ 5:39pm |
 Coolness: 69195 | Canada's king could be an Aussie
Scholar bases claim on document from French library Randy Boswell [ www.canada.com ] British-born Michael Abney-Hastings has been identified by a leading historian as the rightful King of England. If a leading medieval historian has his facts straight, the rightful heir to the British throne -- and thus the true King of Canada -- is a beer-swilling, 62-year-old Australian rice scientist named Michael Abney-Hastings. The claim being made by respected scholar Michael K. Jones is based on his discovery of a document in a French library apparently confirming that the 15th-century English monarch Edward IV -- an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II and all of her royal forebears -- was an illegitimate child. Jones says the implications of his findings are "staggering" and Britain's Channel 4 aired a documentary on Saturday detailing the case of Britain's Real Monarch. In truth, Elizabeth's crown is quite safe. But folks with a fascination for what-if stories have a doozy on their hands, one that not only involves a would-be Aussie king with republican leanings but also the rethinking of key episodes from British history -- not to mention Shakespeare's plays. At the heart of the story is Richard III's struggle to take control of the monarchy in the 1480s. When his brother, Edward IV, died in April 1483, Richard quickly deposed his nephew, Edward V, and took the throne for himself. Richard asserted his legitimacy partly on the claim that his oldest brother, Edward IV, was born a bastard and that his second oldest brother, George, had been convicted of treason and was thus disqualified from occupying the throne. Richard's case was, in fact, bolstered at the time by his own mother, Cecily Neville, who once admitted that Edward IV was an illegitimate child. But most historians have dismissed her apparent confession as the product of the internecine struggles of the day and Richard's ruthless coercion of the family matriarch. "But for the mother herself to make the acknowledgment was unprecedented," counters Jones, who is one of just a few historians who give credence to another view. They argue that in the summer of 1441, while her husband the Duke of York was at war elsewhere in France, Neville had an affair with an English archer named Blaybourne at the Rouen garrison in Normandy. These historians say the result of that affair was the future Edward IV, who was born on April 28, 1442, at Rouen. Now Jones has added what he calls a "crucial" piece of documentary evidence to back up this minority view. According to archbishopric records held at the cathedral library in Rouen, the Duke of York was fighting in Pontoise, 160 kilometres from his wife, at the time when Edward IV would have been conceived. Citing Jones's research, the documentary notes that "counting back 40 weeks to what would have been his conception brings us to the middle of what appears to be [from archbishopric records at Rouen] a five-week absence" of the Duke of York. The possibility that Edward IV might have been born prematurely is dismissed as unlikely. "At a time when infant mortality was very high, sick or premature babies with a claim to the throne were always recorded by the chroniclers. There is no mention of prematurity with reference to Edward's birth," the documentary-makers state. "In addition, the Rouen Cathedral records tell us that Edward's christening was a hushed-up affair in a side chapel. In contrast, when his younger brother Edmund [killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460] was christened, the whole of Rouen Cathedral was opened up in celebration." The road from Rouen to Jerilderie, Australia -- home of the would-be King Michael I -- is relatively straightforward. If Edward IV was, in fact, illegitimate, then the next legitimate claimant to the throne would have been his next eldest brother George, the Duke of Clarence, whose supposed crime of treason -- a misdemeanor compared to Richard III's own crimes -- "could have easily been dispensed with by Parliament," notes Channel 4. Tracing the Duke of Clarence's line leads to Abney-Hastings, who was born in Britain in 1942 and later inherited the title Earl of Loudon. But Abney-Hasting's blue-blood connections have never played a major role in his life. "I believe that Australia should be a republic," he told Channel 4. "I'm not a mad monarchist." © Copyright 2004 Vancouver Sun |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Jan 6, 2004 @ 6:57pm |
 Coolness: 339885 | she ain't my queen, that hoe. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Wed Jan 7, 2004 @ 8:26am |
 Coolness: 121660 | i read that- i mean who frikken cares? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Wed Jan 7, 2004 @ 7:37pm |
| Coolness: 69195 | i care |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ replied on Wed Jan 7, 2004 @ 8:42pm |
 Coolness: 141585 | no, you don't |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Thu Jan 8, 2004 @ 12:30am |
| Coolness: 69195 | youre right
*lowers head in shame* |
Queen Elizabeth Ii A Phoney!
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