http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1576 Comments for "God Save King Mick" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1576 <p><img src="http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/edw4.jpg" alt="" height="216" width="179" class="right" /> Talk about your Royal scandals, <a title="NEWS.com.au | Aussie in claim to throne (December 28, 2003)" href="http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8266043%255E13780,00.html">this one is a real beaut</a>: <i>"... at the time of Edward <span class="caps">IV'</span>s conception, his parents were 160km apart</i> ... unless, of course, the young heir was born like <em>two months</em> overdue.</p> <p>Yup, that's <u>8</u> weeks, and as is known by any experienced parents out there, there's no friggin' way. Of course, there has long been rumoured a more mundane explanation which has perhaps now been corrobberated by church records uncovered by medieval scholar, Dr Michael Jones. The story goes, roughly:</p> <blockquote><p><i>(c.1441) when Richard, the Duke of York, and his wife Cicely Neville were in France, Cicely took a French archer named "Blaybourne" to her bed. Warwick, Cicely's own nephew, was unchivalrous enough to profess this Blaybourne to be the true father of Edward IV</i> (<small><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edwardthefifth/message/868?source=1">edwardthefifth@yahoo</a></small>)</p></blockquote> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1576#comments wonderful world Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:11:54 -0500 mrG 1576 at http://blog.teledyn.com