Sexual Preference Not Changed By Woo-Hooing?
clem:
Quote from: sandilou on 2005 August 13, 18:17:48
Posted by: veilchen
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The hanoveran facial features are however, prominently displayed on many british royal princesses and princes
Yep, they all look alot like Prince Philip. My mother told me a while back that he was a (distant) relation of King George's (the Queen's father) - read what you will into distant. They all look alike (horsey).
Yep, the Queen and Prince Phllip are distant cousins--looks like Queen Victoria is great-great grandmother to them both. Check out this link (it is a .pdf, though, for those with slower computers).
laeshanin:
The inbreeding in the royal families of Europe is something to behold, and something to make certain you try to avoid unless you're attracted to horses, flippers and wing-nuts (the ears, oh lord, the ears!). Anyone taken a long hard look at Camilla, the latest wife in the Windsor stable, and I do use that word advisedly? Still, Charlie loves her and they seem suited, if somewhat odd.
Am glad they're past the breeding stage however, as they're prob cousins somewhere down the line...
ZephyrZodiac:
The British royals and the top aristocrats are certainly very much tied together through intermarriage and morganatic marriages (the Prince Regent and his brothers!), so if they marry within that very closed group it's lucky if they don't meet somewhere not too far back on the family tree! Did you know that even George Bush is related somewhere in the past to our Royals? (I believe it was the "wrong side of the blanket", and how many people in the world are there who can claim that, I wonder? One thing you can say about them, they're prolific breeders!)
veilchen:
I'm sure of that ZZ. History tells us the high-handedness and ruthlessness of the feudal lords (and quite a few ladies. I wonder how many were born on the right side of the blanket, even though they had no blood-ties to their mothers' husbands :D). I believe in those days it was quite 'normal' for the lord of the manor, or his sons, to rape and impregnate a pretty peasant woman -without fear of reprisal-.
Ancient Sim:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 August 18, 15:47:05
I believe in those days it was quite 'normal' for the lord of the manor, or his sons, to rape and impregnate a pretty peasant woman -without fear of reprisal-.
Very common. My mother recently found out that her maternal grandmother wasn't her great-grandfather's daughter at all, but the daughter of the Lord of the Manor, who had taken advantage of my gt. grandmother when she was in service with his family. Oddly enough, I am also descended from the aristocracy on my father's side (long story, very romantic & sad, involving true love & disowned offspring, resulting in no descendants inheriting any of the millions my gt.gt.gt. grandfather died possessing in the 1800's, they went to the state instead). What is weird is that ever since I was a baby, I've expected to be waited on hand & foot. I never even crawled, just pointed to what I wanted and told someone to get it for me. Everyone in the family used to joke about me needing servants. I still don't feel it's right that I should lift a finger. Then again, I am incredibly lazy.
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