Re: Claims of Royal Descent


leadergray wrote:
In my French Civilization class a visiting lecturer mentioned that
there are "numerous" people in France who claim royal descent in social
situations. They don't claim to be pretenders to the throne but they
do claim descent from former monarchs. I thought that nearly all
descendents - even the illegitimate ones - were well-documented and
accounted for? If someone made claims like that in the UK or the US
they would most likely be challenged ... are royal claims not normally
disputed in France?

Not if they are valid, and millions would be.

It was estimated by an erudite source in the 1960's that at the time
there were approximately 100,000 living descendants of Edward III.
Today there could easily be twice that many.

Only a small fraction of all descendants of monarchs are
well-documented and accounted for. I would be very surprised if
Charlemange's did not number well into the millions.

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