.tool_op img{border:0px;filter:Alpha(Opacity=60);-moz-opacity: 0.6;} .tool_op:hover img{border:0px;filter:Alpha(Opacity=100);-moz-opacity: 1;} function change_text_size1(c) { if(c==1){ this_size=GetCookie("ts"); oldClass="content11"; } else{ oldClass="content"+this_size+this_size if(this_size This is a news which appeared recently. Any comments ? P. K . Saha Goddard says he is the great grandson of the Maharaja LONDON: Maharaja Duleep Singh seems to have acquired a new great grandson. A retired debt recovery officer in London has just discovered that the blue bloodline of the last king of the Sikhs runs through his veins. Bob Goddard stumbled across his royal past during a routine blood test. The 64-year-old is a regular blood donor and has the most common type of blood, O positive. But tests by the National Blood Service revealed that Goddard has an unusual combination of minor blood groups found only in people of Asian or African origins. “I’ve always been a regular blood donor,” said Goddard. “A doctor telephoned me and told me my blood group was very unusual with factors not seen in white northern Europeans,” he added. Goddard told a cousin who was researching their family tree about the discovery. He said said there was a mystery about who their grandfather’s parents had been. Goddard found that his grandfather Charlie Goddard was born in 1888 and was the illegitimate son of an unmarried serving maid at the aristocratic Breckles Hall in Norfolk. “She would never say who the father of her child was but it was rumoured that he was an Indian prince who stayed at Breckles Hall,” said Goddard. Maharaja Duleep Singh was born in 1838 and lost his kingdom to the British when he was only 11. He later set up residence in Elveden Hall in Suffolk in the UK and in 1864 married Bamba Muller, the daughter of a German missionary. She bore him three sons and three daughters – none of whom officially had children. Although Goddard said it was not impossible for Duleep Singh to be his great grandfather, it is more likely to be his second son Frederick. Prince Freddy, born in 1968 was a renowned ladies man like his father and lived at Breckles Hall when Charlie Goddard was born. Bob Goddard was born in Harrow in 1944 to Charlie’s son Stanley and his wife Olwen. Modest about his possible links to Indian royalty Goddard said “it’s interesting, but it doesn’t have any real effect on me.” --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox.