Why are Americans so fascinated by the UK Royal Family?

[pipi_k]

65. Henry II and

Eleanor of Aquitaine...

Did you find that out on Ancestry.com by any chance?

Last year I re-activated my membership that I had allowed to lapse for about four or five years just to see what new connections there might be.

Going back through one particular ancestor from England (the rest being from France), I found links to Henry and Eleanor also.

Then I examined the "information" more closely and found out that someone had somehow decided that a particular person was the offspring of a Bishop of the Church, who himself was related in some way to others (Dukes and Duchesses) who were descended from Henry and Eleanor, etc., etc., etc.

You really have to watch those things. I clicked on all the little "leaves" and had a whole neat family history that even went back to kings of Jerusalem, blah blah blah.

Yeah...impressive. But a crock of shit, basically. In my case, anyway.

I would be highly surprised to find even a drop of Royal blood in my line. My ancestors were regular farming people. Peasants, perhaps. Some of them were even pirates (who plied their trades in the seas off of St Malo, France)


All that is assuming, however, that I didn't get mistakenly switched in the hospital...