Posted by wymanda
on 5/10/2009, 13:21:14, in reply to "Re: Britain's 'Favourite Granny' or 'Alf Garnett in a tiara' ?"
58.7.123.132
and werent the "Bowes" who made the double barrelled surname in trade????
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: Johann Hari:
:
: "She believed Britain's class system
: reflected a natural hierarchy, and the
: people below her creamy, upper tier were
: inferior. She told Wyatt: "I hate that
: classlessness. It is so unreal." At
: first, she was appalled by the idea of her
: eldest daughter marrying Phillip Mountbatten
: because his "bloodlines" weren't
: good enough: his family had fallen from
: power, so they weren't "really"
: royal.
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: In 1946 George II had regain the greek
: throne so how could Philipp belong to a
: family who had fallen from power ?
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: Even so, his father was a younger son from a
: King and his mother a descendant of
: Q.Victoria.
:
: Given Elizabeth B.Lyon background and
: ancestry ...
:
: Wasn't there a gipsy in her ancestors ?
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