March 10, 2007

Last King of France!


Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, an Indian lawyer and part-time farmer from Bhopal, may be the last king of France!

This Indian father-of-three is being feted as the long-lost descendent of the Bourbon kings who ruled France from the 16th century to the French revolution. A distant cousin of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, he is alleged to be not only related to the current Bourbon king of Spain and the Bourbon descendants still in France, but to have more claim than any of them to the French crown.

Article in The Guardian

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