Meet the true king of Canada (England etc)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=68B32FBF-EB87-4011-B096-0189D0F790FF

If a leading medieval historian has his facts straight, the rightful heir to the British throne -- and thus the true King of Canada -- is a beer-swilling, 62-year-old Australian rice scientist named Michael Abney-Hastings.

The claim being made by respected scholar Michael K. Jones is based on his discovery of a document in a French library apparently confirming that the 15th-century English monarch Edward IV -- an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II and all of her royal forebears -- was an illegitimate child.

Jones says the implications of his findings are "staggering" and Britain's Channel 4 aired a documentary on Saturday detailing the case of Britain's Real Monarch.

In truth, Elizabeth's crown is quite safe. But folks with a fascination for what-if stories have a doozy on their hands, one that not only involves a would-be Aussie king with republican leanings but also the rethinking of key episodes from British history -- not to mention Shakespeare's plays.

Ha! He's a republican (in the good sense) I say again, ha!

Of course, there's about 5000 people with a better claim to the throne than the current lot (including Prince Michael of Albany, a computer geek in Edinburgh, the true Stuart heir), but you've gotta love the irony.