At 18:32 19/04/2003 -0500, lanita miller wrote: >My psychic visions tells me that we are ALL direct descendants from >every King, Queen, President, Military hero, and well known person I'm not a fantasy man, but ..... A few days ago, my dear son was grumbling about his socks and underwear not being folded up and put away like they normally are. He still lives at home, and it suits both of us very well. His mother died around 20 years ago, and perhaps we remain closer than some parents/children do. I said "maybe you don't realise how lucky you are to have someone do that for you." And he replied "maybe you don't realise how lucky you are to have a famous designer living with you." Well, he's right. Sort of like those times when you grumble at them and say something like "I don't know why I bother", and they come right back with "because you love me." What can you say? Anyway, there are some people who say we descend, on my mother's Holland side, from the Plantagenets. And here I was, at the time, reading about Eleanor of Aquitaine (who married first Louis II of France, then divorced him and married Henry II, the first English Plantagenet king). It was a notoriously dysfunctional family, by any day's standards. After a bitter dispute and long absence, Henry welcomes his son Richard back into the fold, and at an elaborate ceremony proclaiming the son his heir and crowning him king (in waiting), Henry personally serves Richard at table. He reminds the newly-crowned heir "it isn't every day a prince gets served by a king". And Richard comes right back with "and it isn't every day a king gets served by a duke!" [Referring to his father's less-than-close royal connections.] You don't need to be psychic to feel the genes coursing down through the centuries! Now, this scullery-maid is getting back to the kitchen. Cheers, Ron