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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: QUEEN VICTORIA'S GENE
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 07:04:08 -1000


Eugenia wrote:

> >In previous posts, I have lauded the book several times --- as I did in
> >the post you quoted from. No one else in soc.genealogy.medieval has
> >risen to defend Marlene A. Eilers, in this iteration, and I am glad you
> >have come forward. One person criticized her book but refused to deal
> >in specifics and has fallen silent. [DSH]
>
> If this is referring to the post I made earlier regarding
> QUEEN VICTORIA'S GENE, I can supply more specifics regarding
> 19th century Saxe-Coburgs, but it's been a while since I
> read this book and I felt it was kind of off-topic here
> anyway.
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Prince Albert "in person is [handsome] enough to turn the heads of all
> women that are not blind, or who choose to cry sour grapes" - Standford.

Royal and Noble descents in any period are on-topic. We even do DFA.
You told us that there was a laughable mistake about Leopold [I or II?]
and others concerning the v. Sachsen-Coburg family?

Please continue.
--

D. Spencer Hines --- "Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomini Tuo da
gloriam, propter misericordiam Tuam et veritatem Tuam." Henry V,
[1387-1422] King of England --- Ordered it to be sung by his prelates
and chaplains --- after the Battle of Agincourt, 25 Oct 1415, --- while
every able-bodied man in his victorious army knelt, on the ground.
[Psalm CXV, Verse I]

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