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Subject: Re: Who Then Should Be King ??
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 16:06:40 -0400
Ed Mann wrote:
>
> Earliest link isn't the question. More important, who can claim the
> latest King as ancestor? I've read that Henry VII is the latest King to
> have legitimate descendants who are not part of the extended royal
> family.
>
Gary Boyd Roberts's RD500 gives no Americans descended from a King of
England later than Henry VII, and that is Malcolm Wallop, who happens to
be my cousin.
But only the children of a sovereign and the children of the sons of
sovereigns are royal. Princess Anne's son, Peter Phillips, is 9th in
line to the throne, but he's still plain old Mr. Only the descendants of
George II (d. 1760) are covered by the royal marriage act. But I believe
that James II has living legitimate descendants. Isn't that how the
Wittelsbachs get into the picture? If not, I'd very much like to know
how they do.
I remember reading a British murder mystery many years ago in which the
detective, when not tracking down nogoodniks, was a rabid Jacobite. He
contempuously referred to the present Queen as "Betty Saxe-Coburg."
John Steele Gordon
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