Posted by Dag T. Hoelseth
on 16/9/2011, 16:24:11, in reply to "A Danish and Samoan Royal connection"
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: A few years ago, one of our Australian ABC
: Foreign Correspondents, Max Uechtritz,
: mentioned that he was descended from the
: Danish Royal family and the Samoan Royal
: family. It seemed most unlikely but turns
: out to be true.
:
: His ancestor, Richard Heinrich Robert
: Parkinson, was the son of Christian Karl
: Friedrich, Duke of
: Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
: and his chambermaid, Louis Sophie Caroline
: Bruning. Please see Leo van der Pas' page
: here:
:
:
: http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00433259&tree=LEO
:
: Richard Parkinson travelled to the Pacific
: and there married Phoebe Clothilde Coe, the
: daughter of Le'utu Talelatale, a Samoan
: princess. Together they had 11 children and
: numerous descendants.
:
: Phoebe Coe's sister was Emma, Queen of the
: South Seas. Check her entry in wikipedia
: here:
:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Forsayth
Fascinating story, but too little documentation that the duke actually fathered Richard Parkinson...
DTH
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