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From: Ed Mann <>
Subject: Re: Charles III?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:36:29 -0500


Renia wrote:
>
> wrote:
>
> > Why Mr. Hines, I am surprised that you don't know the Rightfu' King, Charles
> > Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. The idiot who had his
> > highlanders stand up on a hill and receive fire from Clarence's artillery so
> > long that there were barely enough left to be destroyed in the first charge.
> >
> > Gordon Reid Hale
> > Grand Prairie, Texas
>
> Mr Hines's comment was in relation to this statement:
>
> Here's all I have. Note that I have _NOT_ said that the Earl is
> descended from Lucy Walters' boyfriend, King Charles III of England.
>
> The writer actually meant King Charles II of England.

That's indeed what I meant - just a typo, and an obvious one at that.

> Bonnie Prince Charlie would have become Charles III, had he become king, which
> he did not.
>
> Renia

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