on 19/10/2023, 3:19:04, in reply to "Re: Prince Bernhard's Nazi membership card found"
He might very well have been "over-privileged, self pleasing and himself over-estimating", and the Lockheed scandal suggests that he was, at best, unscrupulous and at worst, ... well, let's not go there, but "parvenue" he was not. The House of Lippe(-Biesterfeld) descends from Jodocus Herman, Lord of Lippe, who died c. 1096. Although. this descent does not come close to the antiquity of the House of Kung of even that of the Banu Hashim, surely an agnatic descent spanning 1000 years is not "parvenu".
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