It is Friday morning! Happy Friday, everybody! (OK, when Wayne sees this, it will likely be Saturday for him, time zones and date lines being what they are). 9 September 2022.
Yesterday was kind of a bummer for fans of the British monarchy, as the 96-year-old leader of the British royal family passed, Queen Elizabeth II.
I pass along my respects to her family and those that cared about her the most. She was the only British monarch that most people alive today have ever known.
I have done a little research on Ancestry about my family history, and I was able to trace a branch or two of the family back to England. It has a significant margin for error, but if you go back far enough, there are some significant folks that pop up in the family tree, including ties to King John, born in 1166, and died in 1216.
That and 6 bucks will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks, right?
I’ve come to the conclusion that most people alive today are descended from some “royalty”, whatever that means. If you stop and consider who had access to food, clean water, and shelter, ultimately most of the survivors had some sort of strain of nobility, whether through traditional marriage and family, or through affairs, trysts, and the all-to-common rape back in that time.
Yeah, I know if you go back far enough, you’ll come across some rapists. I’m not that naive.
The Plantagenets demand a recount!
Nah… not sure I’d ever want to be the focus of all that attention all the time.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
