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Princess Diana

Sigh. I was booked on a 7-hour guided coastal walk on Corfu today. Our Greek guide starts off fairly early by asking if we're following the latest scandal relating to "Lady Di". I have a "huh, what latest scandal, the woman's been dead ten years" moment, before I realse what she's on about.

So I say, "Oh yeah, big mystery, drunk driver and not wearing a seatbelt". No, no way was he drunk, his family say he wasn't drunk.... Sigh.

I agree he didn't look drunk in the security videos. However, you can have had enough alcohol to seriously impair your reflexes and judgement while still being able to walk and chew gum at the same time - or even tie your shoelaces. Also, if he was a regular heavy drinker, I think that effect would be magnified.

But I didn't belabour the point. She'd earlier referred to "Prince Charles and his two sons". I mentioned that Prince Charles has a maximum of one legitimate son of his own begetting. Hell, that's so well accepted now that I notice slightly snide references to it regularly in the broadsheet press. But our guide didn't know. Well, that was a pretty effective change of subject.

This was all because we were passing some property owned by "The Queen of England". I forebore to challenge her on that one because as far as I'm concerned the English can have our royal family, we've no more use for them. She seemed to assume that everyone on the walk was American, and would therefore be massively impressed by all this royalty. Oh, and did we know that Prince Philip was.... "Yeah, we call him Phil the Greek" I remarked.

But other than that she was a good guide and we had a great time and she let us swim twice and didn't even attempt to drown me.

Rolfe.
 
Woah woah woah. Is the Harry thing really true? I know he's a ginger and looks exactly like James Hewitt, but what actual proof do we have?
 
I have to say I think it is unlikely he isn't Charles' son however my reasoning is a tad CT in itself.
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I would have thought that when he was born a "paternity" test would have been carried out and if it had been found he wasn't Charles' the nation would have been mourning another tragic SID!

(Told you my theory as why he isn't was a CT! :) )
 
Darat said:
I have to say I think it is unlikely he isn't Charles' son however my reasoning is a tad CT in itself.
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I would have thought that when he was born a "paternity" test would have been carried out and if it had been found he wasn't Charles' the nation would have been mourning another tragic SID!

(Told you my theory as why he isn't was a CT! :) )
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Besides...he shows all of the inherient intilligence we have come to expect of a member of the "Windsor" family.
 
Big Les said:
Woah woah woah. Is the Harry thing really true? I know he's a ginger and looks exactly like James Hewitt, but what actual proof do we have?
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What a Jeremy Kyle show that would be!
"Chaz, Jim the paternaty results are back and they show that Harry's dad is
David Icke
 
Chuck the hippy couldn't organise a party in a brewery . The man's a total flake who was married to a loose cannon who had a boy friend whose father is a wealthy pain in the arse .
 
Darat said:
I have to say I think it is unlikely he isn't Charles' son ....)
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(Just to continue the fun derail....) No way can he be Charles's son.

Quick update on the genetics of ginger. It's the most recessive hair colour there is. Anything else will dominate it. In consequence, to be phenotypically carrot, you have to have a ginger gene from BOTH parents. That is, there has to be red hair somewhere on BOTH sides of the family.

Charlie's lineage is as well-documented as the winner at Cruft's. No red hair. Not anywhere.

Yes, red hair on Diana's side of the family, we know that. But to produce a red-head kid, she had to tango with a guy with at least one red gene in the pool. Which Charles doesn't have.

So, list of probable candidates for Harry's dad....?

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
(Just to continue the fun derail....) No way can he be Charles's son.
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Charlie's lineage is as well-documented as the winner at Cruft's. No red hair. Not anywhere.
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Yes, red hair on Diana's side of the family, we know that. But to produce a red-head kid, she had to tango with a guy with at least one red gene in the pool. Which Charles doesn't have.
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Just one thing; you're assuming that lineage is accurate. It would only take one red-headed courtier or royal favourite to screw things up, so to speak, with nothing visible until a second ginger gene comes along from the other side.
 
Rolfe said:
(Just to continue the fun derail....) No way can he be Charles's son.

Quick update on the genetics of ginger. It's the most recessive hair colour there is. Anything else will dominate it. In consequence, to be phenotypically carrot, you have to have a ginger gene from BOTH parents. That is, there has to be red hair somewhere on BOTH sides of the family.

Charlie's lineage is as well-documented as the winner at Cruft's. No red hair. Not anywhere.

Yes, red hair on Diana's side of the family, we know that. But to produce a red-head kid, she had to tango with a guy with at least one red gene in the pool. Which Charles doesn't have.

So, list of probable candidates for Harry's dad....?

Rolfe.
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Well both my brother and I are red heads (not "ginger" so perhaps it's something slightly different...) and my mother is blond haired and my father is black haired and no one, when my elder brother was born, could remember a red head in the family (who hadn't married into the family). My mother took a lot of teasing regarding "the milkman" for quite a few years - I think she was quite relieved when I was born (nearly 200 miles away) and with a different milkman! So red heads can pop in a family even when there have been no known ones for a quite a while.
 
Rolfe said:
(Just to continue the fun derail....) No way can he be Charles's son.

Quick update on the genetics of ginger. It's the most recessive hair colour there is. Anything else will dominate it. In consequence, to be phenotypically carrot, you have to have a ginger gene from BOTH parents. That is, there has to be red hair somewhere on BOTH sides of the family.

Charlie's lineage is as well-documented as the winner at Cruft's. No red hair. Not anywhere.

Yes, red hair on Diana's side of the family, we know that. But to produce a red-head kid, she had to tango with a guy with at least one red gene in the pool. Which Charles doesn't have.

So, list of probable candidates for Harry's dad....?

Rolfe.
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Hewitt claims he did not meet Diana until the Summer of 1986
With Prince Harry being born on Septemer 15th, 1984.
 
Hyperviolet said:
Hewitt claims he did not meet Diana until the Summer of 1986
With Prince Harry being born on Septemer 15th, 1984.
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Don't go ruining a perfectly good conspiracy with facts!

Also, as I think I mentioned on another thread, there is apparently some doubt as to whether the bodyguard who survived was wearing a seatbelt.
 
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