Re: Fw: Royal ancestry and the next president of USA

On Mar 28, 5:24 am, "Leo van de Pas" <leovd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Where do you draw the line with "great geniuses" I am not sure what or how
P.G. Wodehouse said it, but in his opinion he was in his time the greatest
writer because he sold apparently the most books. I left the word genius out
and all the writers   I mentioned have a worldwide reputation. I believe
Lawrence of Arabia's rates pretty high and he has royal ancestors too.

It is a fascinating thing, but  their talents did not come from Geoffrey of
Anjou or Charlemagne, those royal descents are more of an accident

With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Brandon" <starbuc...@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Royal ancestry and the next president of USA

When, in fact, the exact opposite is clearly the case.  I can't think
of any writer of great genius who _had_ royal descents (with the
possible exception of Percy Shelley [although I don't know much about
his ancestry] and Byron).

========= other writers with Royal Ancestors (no doubt there are more)
Graham Greene
Christopher Isherwood
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV
Robert Frost
Ted Morgan
Sir Walter Scott
Lews Carroll
H. P. Lovecraft
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Noel Coward
P. G. Wodehouse

With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia

I said "of great genius," didn't I?  Out of the list you provided, I
think only Frost, Scott, Carroll, and Tennyson would really qualify.
And even those are considerably "less great" than Chaucer,
Shakespeare, Pope, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Richardson, Keats, Wordsworth,
Whitman, Dickens, Mary Anne Evans, Hardy, Henry James, Melville,
Faulkner, all of whom utterly lack royal descents (at least as far as
I know).


FWIW, I believe Jane Austen and George Orwell had royal ancestry too.
.

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