IF THE SHOE FITS: The Stiletto Always Knew She Was A Princess
The Washington Post reports that genealogy experts contend that nearly every man, woman and child on Earth can trace his or her lineage to some king, queen, duke or baron:
"Millions of people have provable descents from medieval monarchs," said
By the same token, for every king in a person's family tree there are thousands and thousands of nobodies whose births, deaths and lives went completely unrecorded by history. We'll never know about them, because until recently vital records were a rarity for all but the noble classes.
It works the other way, too. Anybody who had children more than a few hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today, and quite a few famous ones.
The Stiletto’s forebears on her father’s side include a French crusader, so odds are that her blood is bluer than that of the descendants of the hoi polloi who took that one-way cruise on the Mayflower (you know,
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