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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
King Anthony

Government files just released in the UK revealed that a British police officer named Anthony Hall, during the 1920s and 1930s, claimed to be a direct descendant of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. The claim of rightful heir to the throne apparently rattled King George V, who wanted the man institutionalized for insanity.

The thing is, Anthony Hall wasn't insane, at least not according to government lawyers, who merely thought the man eccentric and wrongheaded. It is amazing that the King would have been bothered by this. Even if his claim were true, the whole idea of five centuries of illegitimate monarchs is, in actual fact, bunk of the highest order.

To quote Walsingham's fine piece, the right of kings, within the span and scope of British history and law, does not derive exclusively from birth, but from the fact of rule which may, under exceptional circumstances, be established by means other than rightful precedence or even of blood inheritance. Such circumstances obtained, for example, in the cases of Henry Bolingbroke, Henry Tudor, and William the Conqueror. In the latter case, the right to the throne was established and recognized by outright force of conquest, irrespective of any (in fact extant) blood ties to a prior king.

These arguments are irrefutably and completely vindicated and upheld by over five centuries of British history - those centuries establishing fact and precedent that by themselves are absolutely unassailable under British constitutional law.

So much for the King's worries. God save the Queen.

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