Loose ends, largely regarding the House of Hastings

Marie, you asked this evening whether the Tudor (oops, mustn't say genocide) vendetta claimed the lives of the offspring of any of Elizabeth of York's sisters.
My main book, although rather Traditionalist, is Antonia Fraser's KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (bought about 30 years ago) and a Plantagenet family tree (much annotated recently) seems not to mention her sisters so I cannot answer that one.

I thought the Channel Four night was superb, apart from the first programme pointing to Richard over the Princes.
It was interesting to hear, on the second programme, how well the House of Hastings has served the Tudors and their line over the years:
1) Margaret of Salisbury was a lady-in-waiting to her cousin, Elizabeth of York.
2) Reginald Pole, her son, is Cardinal to Queen Mary.
3) Henry (the Puritan Earl) loses his castle after fighting for Charles I.
4) Lady Flora is a lady-in-waiting to Victoria's mother and dies after a (medically disproven) scandal.
No thought of revenge on their part, is there? Let us just call the concept of Edward IV's possible illegitimacy the "Jones Hypothesis"

Incidentally, I was in Bury St. Edmunds yesterday and saw a book about Marie Antoinette's son in Ottakar's. I was sorely tempted - after all he is the subject of survival rumours much like Richard's nephews - then I spotted a front page review from Weird (sorry, Weir) and changed my mind.

Stephen.

--- In , "Stephen LARK"
<smlark@i...> wrote:
> Incidentally, I was in Bury St. Edmunds yesterday and saw a book
about Marie Antoinette's son in Ottakar's. I was sorely tempted -
after all he is the subject of survival rumours much like Richard's
nephews - then I spotted a front page review from Weird (sorry, Weir)
and changed my mind.
>
> Stephen.

I have Around Here Somewhere, a newspaper article from two or three
years ago regarding DNA analysis of the preserved heart of the little
boy who died in the Bastille, done to determine whether he was Marie
Antoinette's son or whether the true dauphin had been spirited away
and another child put in his place. I don't recall where they got
the DNA for comparison.

The results were that the heart was that of the dauphin, and the
romantic stories of his being rescued and, ccording to one, growing
up in Canada, were just that: stories.

Katy