Thursday, 2 November 2023

The Bourbons of India

The Sun newspaper features an article on an unlikely pretender to the French crown, the splendidly named Indian lawyer, Balthazar Napoleon IV de Bourbon.


The "House of Bourbon-Bhopal", traces its descent from a nephew of Henri IV who served at the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.  It's all a bit tenuous, but possibly no more so than the claims made by  all those imaginary descendants of Louis XVII.

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