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This is another of the great action-packed stories taken from the records of Cornwall’s Company of Archers. The mouse-eaten parchments on which this particular tale is based were found in a chest at the Bodleian Library during the 1887 renovation of its basement.
It is the witty and almost true story, with a bit of embellishment that Harry Flashman would have enjoyed, about the early days of the Windsor family during the early days of Britain's rise as a great military power and the founding of the great merchant companies that came to have more power and commanded more allegiance than the Crown and the Church.
Among the parchment’s many revelations is that today’s royal family may be descendants of very different ancestors than the men and woman whose portraits are carefully dusted each week in the royal residences. More specifically, it appears that it was an archer, not a son of the Duke of Lancaster, who delved into one of the spanning women who produced today’s royal family. It also help explain why red hair periodically surfaces in the royal family.
Genre: Historical
It is the witty and almost true story, with a bit of embellishment that Harry Flashman would have enjoyed, about the early days of the Windsor family during the early days of Britain's rise as a great military power and the founding of the great merchant companies that came to have more power and commanded more allegiance than the Crown and the Church.
Among the parchment’s many revelations is that today’s royal family may be descendants of very different ancestors than the men and woman whose portraits are carefully dusted each week in the royal residences. More specifically, it appears that it was an archer, not a son of the Duke of Lancaster, who delved into one of the spanning women who produced today’s royal family. It also help explain why red hair periodically surfaces in the royal family.
Genre: Historical
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