Siljhouettes
17-08-2004, 12:19
This new research brings whole new meaning to the term "New England aristocrat"!
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When it comes to American presidential elections, blue blood counts. So say British researchers who predict that Democratic challenger John Kerry will out President Bush on 2nd November simply because he boasts more royal connections than his Republican rival.
After months of research into Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported yesterday that the Vietname war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Tsar Ivan the Terrible, a previous emporer of Byzantium and the Shahs of Persia. Burke's director, Harold Brooks-Baker, said Kerry had his mother Rosemary Forbes, to thank for most of his royal connections.
"Every maternal blood line makes him more royal than any previous American president," Brooks-Baker said. "Because of the fact that every presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes has always won the November presidential election, the coming election - based on 42 previous presidents - will go to John Kerry."
The Irish Times, 17th August 2004
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When it comes to American presidential elections, blue blood counts. So say British researchers who predict that Democratic challenger John Kerry will out President Bush on 2nd November simply because he boasts more royal connections than his Republican rival.
After months of research into Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported yesterday that the Vietname war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Tsar Ivan the Terrible, a previous emporer of Byzantium and the Shahs of Persia. Burke's director, Harold Brooks-Baker, said Kerry had his mother Rosemary Forbes, to thank for most of his royal connections.
"Every maternal blood line makes him more royal than any previous American president," Brooks-Baker said. "Because of the fact that every presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes has always won the November presidential election, the coming election - based on 42 previous presidents - will go to John Kerry."
The Irish Times, 17th August 2004