SCOTTISH HISTORY
I bought a beautiful book in KL last week called Living In Scotland; Thames and Hudson. The images portray the stereotypical impression of the country bumpkin upper class. Pictorially it should be very useful.
I thought then that I needed to know a little bit about the ranking of the top Social classes and interestingly came across these links. I think they offer up some interesting questions about legitimacy, psychology of names and may offer a nice twist to my work.
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION on NOBILITY and ROYALTY
This an interesting link to the question of authenticity in the hierarchy. It also raises questions about the place of and respect of monarchic systems in the ‘modern’ world.
I guess this is also quite interesting with the recent BAFTA given to ‘The Queen’.
Regrettably, there are literally thousands of people with phony titles of nobility, and who claim royal or noble descent, masquerading as genuine throughout the earth. And some thirty or more foul organizations are pumping out hundreds of counterfeit title holders and at least forty plus self-appointed phony orders of knighthood exist to fraudulently give out the counterfeit title of “Sir.” These charlatans make everyone look bad. Unfortunately the true nobility and genuine knights are becoming suspect because people have encountered too many deceivers and pretenders, and it is difficult to discern the actual from the fake. There are also many others who claim illustrious ancestors based on nothing more than family fairy tales or vague legends passed down through the generations, or because of unscrupulous greedy men who sell unproven pedigrees to the unwary and unguarded.
www.nobility-royalty.com/?gclid=CJ7fiZGjqYsCFRCObgodiAXSiw
ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
There must be at least 100 self-styled or phony and counterfeit orders of knighthood on the Internet masquerading as real and authentic, yet they have no legitimacy as genuine orders of chivalry.
www.nobility-royalty.com/id60.htm
ROYAL AND NOBLE GENEAOLOGY
The interesting thing is, the probability exists that everyone in the Western World, with European ancestors, are descended from royalty–Charlemagne in particular. But how could this be? Well, it is complicated to understand, but, the number of our ancestors increases exponentially from having two parents to four grandparents to eight great grandparents–so fast that theoretically 40 generations ago or about a thousand years ago–each individual on earth, right now, “has more than a trillion direct ancestors–a figure that far exceeds the total number of human beings who ever lived [on the earth].” (See: www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5921)
In fact, mathematically speaking, you are probably a direct line descendant of everyone who lived about a thousand years ago, that is, of those who actually had surviving children, or offspring. Another factor in this equation, is that the descendants of royalty and nobility fared much better than the offspring of the common man, who suffered greater hardships and greater tragedy.
JOIN THE SCOTTISH ARISTOCRACY – for £50,000
Unfortunately I don’t have 50,000 GBP to legitimize my project.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1420942003
Another interesting link;
www.Baronytitles.com
EVEN BETTER!
For a mere 37GBP (in the name of art and in the environmental protection of our great land), you may now refer to me as…
LADY SUSAN MURIEL WEIR OF JURA.
This is my estate!
http://laird-of-jura.com/
Interestingly, the Isle of Jura was where George Orwell lived when he wrote “Nineteen Eighty Four”.
