The Rightful Heir to the British Throne

Time
July 6, 2012

Mike Hastings, an Australian forklift driver often called the “rightful heir” to the British throne, died June 30 in Jerilderie, Australia.

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'Rightful king of England' dies: Aussie forklift truck driver's ancestors were 'cheated out of crown'

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Hastings was a descendant of the House of York, which famously battled the House of Lancaster for the rights to the British crown in the 15th century during the War of the Roses.

British historian Michael Jones found documents in France’s Rouen Cathedral that he believed showed King Edward IV, who ruled with a brief interruption from 1461 to 1483, was illegitimate.

Jones based this on evidence that Edward’s father Richard of York was fighting the French at Pontoise when Edward was allegedly conceived, while his mother Cecily was in Rouen romancing another man.

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That's what King Richard III claimed!!

Poor Richard!! He had some character flaws, common to his time and social class, to be sure, but he was at least as good a king as the usurper Henry Tudor -- a nasty, miserly schemer whose progeny were syphilitic Henry VIII, sickly Edward, Bloody Mary and tricky Gloriana.

Everything went to pot with the end of the Plantagenets.

I'll bet a good Plantagenet king would not have let those criminal terrorists of 1776 get away with their vile overturning of orderly society!!

It took a bumbling Hannoverian to be so incompetent!!
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Did Richard III kill the Princes in the Tower? That is still a matter of great historical controversy. Some students of the matter make a good case that the Princes were still alive in the Tower when Henry VII came to the throne, and the usurper had them killed!

Henry VII was almost modern in his use of propaganda. He had Thomas More write up a hatchet-job about Richard, for which More got a knighthood. Shakespeare's "bunch-backed, toad-like" Richard III (another piece of Tudor propaganda) was drawn from More's fictions! (So don't feel too sorry that Henry VIII killed Sir Thomas More! The old buzzard had it coming!)

Nasty Henry Tudor also threw the Earl of Warwick (the ancestor of the forklift driver of this thread) into the Tower -- for no other reason than that Warwick had a better claim to the throne than Henry had! Naturally, Henry executed Warwick.
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You mistake righteous indignation and the effervescence of rhetoric for inebriation.

I am glad you recognize that the so-called "Founding Fathers" were "a bunch of greedy tax evaders." There is hope for anyone who can see that much truth.
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Did Richard III kill the Princes in the Tower? That is still a matter of great historical controversy. Some students of the matter make a good case that the Princes were still alive in the Tower when Henry VII came to the throne, and the usurper had them killed!

Henry VII was almost modern in his use of propaganda. He had Thomas More write up a hatchet-job about Richard, for which More got a knighthood. Shakespeare's "bunch-backed, toad-like" Richard III (another piece of Tudor propaganda) was drawn from More's fictions! (So don't feel too sorry that Henry VIII killed Sir Thomas More! The old buzzard had it coming!)

Nasty Henry Tudor also threw the Earl of Warwick (the ancestor of the forklift driver of this thread) into the Tower -- for no other reason than that Warwick had a better claim to the throne than Henry had! Naturally, Henry executed Warwick.
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