Quote Originally Posted by Ludens
After Louis was driven out, everybody agreed that nothing happened and because of this, Louis is never mentioned as a King of England even though he was crowned.
Interesting stuff. But if it was all supposedly hushed up, how did you get to find out about it and share this with us? Is this coming from one of those 'shocking truth finally revealed' type books?

Speaking of which, I recently saw a repeat of an interesting documentary in which Tony Robinson (of UK Channel 4's Time Team fame) runs us through some research done into the English line of succession. I forget the exact names and details but it had to do with Henry Tudor's already oblique claim on the throne all falling back on a distant Royally-connected ancestor, whose date of birth implied a conception date which coincided with his father being on a campaign in France at a time when his mother was back home in England. The birth of the couple's second son was marked with feasting and celebrations worthy of a firstborn, by contrast to events after the previous one. A convoluted way of saying that every royal down the line since the Tudors is decended from a.... err, 'someone of illegitimate birth'.

He proceeds to track down a living Plantagenet, to give him the news that he is the rightful king of England but he's been living in Australia for nearly fifty years (a 'gap year' in his twenties never actually came to an end) and, to everyone's amusement, is a staunch republican (to Ozzies this means pro-Ozzie republic, not republican as per US political party). They finish the program with an amusing 'what if' situation, in which a look-alike for HM Queen is seen portrayed as an ordinary German housewife, popping into a supermarket to buy some bratwurst... LOL