Despite most monarchies never considering illegitimate children as true heirs, William I's (also known as William the Conqueror) parents were never married which caused him some trouble in claiming his father's title of Duke of Normandy. He would later become King of England not by birth right, but by military conquest.
I think in the days of yore, you might find many a monarch was conceived on the
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Many a handsome page may have bedded the queen of the day and there were not DNA tests way back then!
Even today, a certain young prince seems to have the looks of a certain handsome cavalry officer of the Royal Household!
Oh good God, Please not the stocks or a barrel of hot boiling Texas oil for me
to be thrown into!!!
B J Hunnicut
even today, we have some princes whose looks say they were conceived in some other bed, not their 'father's' one :) Many a handsome officers and polo players have bedded princesses in our days and the queen would not allow a DNA test....
DeleteWatch out Dezmond - you'll be in the stocks with me or boiled in
Deleteoil!!! ha ha.
I don't think they can say / order anymore: "Off with their heads"
B J Hunnicut ( who may be sliced up as bees wax!)
they can eat my shorts :) I'm not their royal subject! The queensie has no sovereignty over the spy
DeleteIf you can't beat them, beat them I guess was his philosophy
ReplyDeleteHorrors! :)
ReplyDeleteHe wasn't called William the Bastard for nothing!
ReplyDeleteDNA testing back then would have been an eye-opener and caused lots of problems.
ReplyDeleteInteresting history lesson for me.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, never knew that.
ReplyDeleteNow there's something I never knew!
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