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Kate & Will:
Alweer Inteelt — (20/11/10)
Kate Middleton
en Prins William van Engeland gaan trouwen, maar Kate is niet "een
gewoon meisje", zoals ze ons willen doen geloven, ze komt uit dezelfde
bloedlijn als Prins William (net als Lady Diana uit dezelfde bloedlijn
kwam als Prins Charles) waardoor de genen van het "nobele" reptiliaanse
ras der Windsors (voorheen Saksen-Coburg-Gotha) kan worden doorgegeven
aan een volgende generatie.
Lees het onderstaande Artikel
van Christopher Wilson uit The Daily Mail van augustus 2010.
Wills and Kate, kissing cousins! How the Royal lovebirds are related
thanks to a Tudor tyrant so bloodthirsty he's been airbrushed from history
A dark and deliciously murky secret hovers over the continuing relationship
between Prince William and his girlfriend [verloofde
- red.] Kate Middleton - a skeleton so large that even
a vast royal closet would struggle to contain it.
For the Mail can reveal that William and Kate are distant cousins. Not
only that, the common ancestor who links the two lovers is a murderous
despot whose bloody deeds have been deliberately forgotten by history.
Until now.
The man who links William and Kate as kith and kin is Sir Thomas Leighton,
an Elizabethan soldier, diplomat and, for 40 years, the cut-throat Governor
of Guernsey.
He is William's 12th generation great-grandparent, and Kate's 11th, making
them 12th cousins, once removed.
A despot and a dictator, Leighton brooked no argument and made life hell
for those he ruled. 'He disregarded civil liberties and kept the people
down by main force,' reads a rare account of his life.
This hard-nosed figure was, however, a gentleman; which will come as a
timely snub to those critics of Kate Middleton who dismiss her antecedents
as being working-class and - extraordinary in this day and
age - therefore deem her unsuitable as a future princess.
So Kate may be relieved to learn of her posh ancestor. On the other hand,
she might not be too keen to boast over the dinner table about his bloody
modus operandi.
So hated was Leighton, that on his death in 1610, the official report
on his demise was defaced by angry Guernsey residents. And uniquely for
such an important figure in the Elizabethan court - his wife
was the Queen's cousin - no portrait of him survives. All
were destroyed or lost.
So what makes this gruesome fellow, whose blood courses through the veins
of our future king and queen, into such a figure of hatred? Why do historians
prefer to ignore his existence?
The answer lies in his despotic, nepotistic rule of Guernsey -
a small but crucial stronghold during the days when Spain was amassing
its armada against Britain.
Leighton had been a hugely successful soldier, serving with distinction
in France and Ireland, and lustily enjoying the quelling of a revolt in
northern England in 1569.
Some said he enjoyed the sight and smell of blood just a little too much.
An enthusiastic supporter of hanging, drawing and quartering, Leighton
never shied away from the meting out of justice, and the bloodier the
better. [Klinkt als een goede beschrijving van reptiliaanse
eigenschappen - red.]
To reward him, or perhaps just to get this gentleman thug out of her way,
Queen Elizabeth gave him Guernsey to govern in 1570 - and
so his reign of terror began.
From the moment he landed at St Peter Port on a blustery May day, he took
a hearty dislike to the locals.
For a century or more, the Channel Islands had determinedly maintained
international neutrality, but this inspired in the warlike Leighton a
deep contempt: 'a people cowardly in their courage and somewhat too kind
to the French,' he snorted.
And, in an early warning of what was to follow, he added menacingly: 'I
will keep them Her Highness's subjects maugre [despite] the instinct of
their hearts.'
With the threat of Spanish invasion just around the corner, and discovering
that the island's defences were paper-thin, Leighton started out as he
meant to go along - lavishly spending Guernsey's revenues
on fortifications without reference to the locals.
Within a year, sensing a growing well of resentment to his profligacy,
he used his contacts in London to secure a royal Warrant to endorse his
actions.
Voices raised against him were silenced. Civil liberties were curtailed,
people were arrested and riots broke out: he responded with gusto, locking
his opponents up without trial.
Word got back to London that the gout-ridden governor was out of control.
The Bailiff and Jurats - distinguished elders of the community
- complained to a visiting Royal Commission that Leighton alone
was to blame for the riots.
The root of the problem was his misappropriation of funds, his tyranny,
his taste for imprisonment without trial, and his press-ganging of Guernseymen
to go to sea against their will to fight pirates (during which many lost
their lives).
In fact, the Royal Commission - dispatched by the Queen to
answer the locals' complaints - was a fix. The moment its
members arrived, Leighton announced he would join their number, thereby
sitting in judgment on his own actions.
It came as no surprise to the hard-pressed islanders that when the Commission
reported, it exonerated their dictator.
Leighton's intransigence flourished: he dismissed local laws and democracy,
turfing out the Bailiff and installing his nephew Thomas Wigmore as a
puppet figurehead.
Years later, he made his son a Lieutenant of the island, too.
Surrounded by allies, Leighton felt emboldened to seize four French ships
tied up in St Peter Port - even though Guernsey was supposed
to be neutral.
The Royal Court in London, embarrassed by this act of brigandry, declared
the seizure invalid: Leighton airily ignored their judgment. This was
too much for his nephew Wigmore, who accused him of tyranny.
But Wigmore had miscalculated the power Leighton still wielded -
and found himself being hauled back to London to explain himself.
Fearful for his life, Wigmore responded by hiring two hitmen to murder
the prosecutor - just the kind of behaviour Leighton himself
was capable of - and was jailed for his pains.
Later, Leighton was to dispatch further senior Guernseymen to London for
disagreeing with him, their price usually being a spell in jail. Rough
justice was the order of the day in Elizabethan times, and to the victor
came the spoils.
Exonerated from the successive charges against him, in 1587 Leighton sailed
to England to advise Sir Walter Raleigh on defence strategy in the face
of the threat from the Armada. In gratitude, Elizabeth gave him a knighthood,
and her cousin Elizabeth Knollys' hand in marriage.
Elizabeth Knollys had important connections: not only was she a cousin
of the Queen, but also a relation of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King
Henry VIII. In her Tudor ruff, she rather resembled an early Kate Middleton,
and soon became Sir Thomas Leighton's most valuable conquest, on or off
the battlefield. Together the couple had three children -
their son Thomas, and daughters Elizabeth and Anne.
It is from Elizabeth Leighton's side that Kate descends, while William's
ancestor is her sister Anne. Curiously, there is not a single titled person
on Kate's side of the family tree, yet on William's side he can count
the earls of Rochester, Lords Lisburne, and a few baronets among his ancestors
before his forbears marry into the Spencer family.
In fact, Kate's family slid decidedly downmarket for a few generations
before picking itself up and becoming respectable again.
Sir Thomas and Elizabeth's daughter married one Sherrington Talbot, a
member of an ancient and respectable family of landowners, but in a couple
of generations' time, things were beginning to look decidedly iffy.
Sherrington and Elizabeth's granddaughter wed Henry Davenport, after which
the bloodline began to sink slowly down society's totem pole until they
reached the point at which Henry's great-granddaughter Sarah Davenport
married Tom Ashford of Stratford-on-Avon - a lowly ironmonger
and 'saddler's bridle cutter'.
The whole family lived in stables in the town - the only legacy
Tom could leave his daughter Elizabeth when she married Robert Hobbes
in 1800.
Hobbes, who described himself as a gentleman (others might not) was, in
fact, an early property developer, buying up properties around Stratford;
but the couple's daughter moved things upmarket again when she married
an Oxford-educated clergyman, the Rev Thomas Davis.
Their daughter, Harriet, married into the Luptons, a rich upper-middle-class
family of merchants and property owners around Leeds - and
Harriet's daughter, Olive, married a successful Leeds lawyer, Richard
Middleton. Richard's son Peter was a pilot, so too was his grandson Michael
- the father of Kate.
For the heralds whose job it will be to come up with a convincing coat
of arms for Kate when the Palace finally announces her engagement to William,
this latest revelation of near-royalty in the family will come as a relief,
given that so many of her ancestors were working men without, as they
say, escutcheon.
On the other hand, not everyone would wish to be associated with an ancestor
who cared so little for the sanctity of life.
The short official record of Sir Thomas, who is after all the blood-tie
between our future king and queen, could hardly be more dismissive: 'Leighton
is recalled in Guernsey with . . . rancour. In England, he is barely remembered
at all.'
Perhaps that's about to change.
Extra:
[1] The 25-year-old Berkshire beauty (Kate Middleton),
whose parents run a children's party supply business, is apparently
descended from the 14th-century monarch King Edward III and his wife Queen
Phillipa. According to a genealogist, Kate's family tree can be
traced back to Henry Percy, the third Earl of Northumberland. This means
Kate and her sister Pippa can "claim blood ties with every crowned
head of Europe and the majority of the British peerage".
The genealogist explains, "Kate's great-grandmother, Olive
Lupton, an upper-middle-class Victorian, was 13 generations in descent
from Henry Percy, third Earl of Northumberland. Olive was therefore 16
generations in descent from Edward III and Queen Phillipa." The
connection means the attractive siblings are therefore distantly related
to their friend George, Earl Percy, heir to the current Duke of Northumberland.
(link)
[2] The fiancee of Britain's Prince William has some
family ties to famous Americans, including the first U.S. president. The
New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston said Tuesday that
Kate Middleton is an eighth cousin eight times removed, to George Washington.
Their common ancestor, Sir William Gascoigne, died in 1487. William's
late mother, Princess Diana, and great-grandmother, Queen Mother Elizabeth,
also were cousins of Washington. Middleton's other American cousins include
explorer Meriwether Lewis, who teamed with William Clark for their renowned
19th century Western expedition. He's a 9th cousin seven times removed.
The society also says Middleton is a 13th cousin three times removed,
of the World War II general George S. Patton.
Prince William and Middleton themselves are 15th cousins, through Sir
Thomas Fairfax, who died during the reign of Henry VIII. (Copyright 2010
by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) (link)
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