Anthony Hoskins
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So wrong he could be right?
Algernon Sidney, Algernon Swinburne, Anne Boleyn, annulments, Anthony Hoskins, Bishop Ridley, Catherine Carey, Catherine of Aragon, DNA analysis, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, execution, Genealogists’ Magazine, Henry Caret Lord Hunsdon, Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII, Horace Round, Horatio Nelson, illegitimacy, Ireland, John Ashdown-Hill, Josiah Wedgwood, Lady Anne Somerset, Lady Antonia Fraser, Mail on Sunday, Marie Barnfield, Mary Boleyn, Mary I, Norman Baker, P.G. Wodehouse, Peter Hammond, Pole family, Princess Daisy, Queen Mother, Ralph Vaughan Williams, rebellions, Robert 2nd Earl of Essex, royal finance, Sabine Baring-Gould, Society of Genealogists, Vita Sackville-West, William Carey, William CowperThis article, by the former MP Norman Baker, appeared in the Mail on Sunday. Actually, the original version was much longer and referred to Elizabeth II as a descendant of Henry VIII. This is an egregious howler, surely, because all of his actual descendants died by 1603 (or the last day of 1602/3 in the…
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