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March 21, 2008 — britishginger
Despite the fact that I was born in South Wales, and my lineage is entirely English and Welsh (save for a couple of individuals in the family tree who came from France in the 1800s) I’m pretty sure, or at least I’m almost certain - well, make that a definite maybe - that I’m a descendant of Scotland’s Robert the Bruce.
Yes-sirree-Bob!
(Sorry, no pun intended…)
This, of course, is making a bit of fun of John McCain who says he might well be a descendant. Am I a descendant? With almost 99.9% certainty, I can say a resounding no.
On the other hand, Robert 1 was, reportedly, a bit of a scoundrel and fathered a number of children, legitimately and otherwise. In fact, the experts claim you, too, may be a descendant, and for that matter, about 200 million other people.
Get in line… right behind U.S. presidential candidate, McCain.
McCain, like many wannabes in the public eye, is really strrrretching it with his claim to a wedge of historical fame. The American war hero, it was reported, claims that he’s a descendant of (Medieval) King of Scots, Robert the Bruce (Robert 1) which makes for an interesting story in the U.K.’s The Guardian.
(I can definitely - yes, definitely - see the familial resemblance between the younger John and the older Robert in the family album pictures above.)
Ah, Johnny, our Last semi-King of Scotland. Move over Forest Whitaker…
