{"id":9180,"date":"2013-08-08T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T10:52:42","slug":"baby-cambridge-has-train-drivers-and-miners-among-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2013\/08\/baby-cambridge-has-train-drivers-and-miners-among-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Cambridge has \u2018train drivers and miners\u2019 among ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Prince George Alexander Louis will be the first British monarch since William the Conqueror to have a non-royal a parent.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The prince, born to Britain&#8217;s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London on 22 July, is third in line to the British throne.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Genealogist Anthony Adolph, author of <em>The King&#8217;s Henchmen<\/em>, told <em>Global<\/em>: &#8220;Prince George is unique since William the Conqueror in being a future British monarch who has half his ancestry from a mother with completely ordinary ancestry &#8211; mainly working and lower middle class. The Prince still has all the royal genes of his royal ancestors, but in addition he has a huge, new input of genes from a vast range of social backgrounds. That is new, and can only be healthy for a monarchy which wishes to be representative of the whole nation.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Duchess of Cambridge&#8217;s ancestors include train drivers, agricultural labourers, and coal miners.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">However, Adolph has discovered that the Duchess does have a royal bloodline herself. He traced her family tree to discover &#8220;a baronet who died in poverty in Chesterle Street workhouse, but who was himself descended from an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince George Alexander Louis will be the first British monarch since William the Conqueror to have a non-royal a parent. The prince, born to Britain&#8217;s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London on 22 July, is third in line to the British throne. Genealogist Anthony Adolph, author of The King&#8217;s Henchmen, told Global: &#8220;Prince George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}