WILLOWTREE,
I offer this counter lineage to the british royal family:
According to Gardner the Holy Grail is a royal bloodline, The bloodline of Juda, the ancient and royal House of David, Kings of Israel from the days of the Old Testament. The bloodline of this royal house is traced in considerable detail from well before the Egyptian Exodus of the Hebrews into the twentieth century. This is the family of Jesus! Gardner is uniquely suited for this quest as he is a diligent researcher with access to some if not all of Europe's religious and political archives, including many private and well-guarded repositories of ancient lore. To quote the publisher's official biographical sketch...
Laurence Gardner, Prior of The Celtic Church's Sacred Kindred of St Columba, is an internationally known sovereign And chivalric genealogist. Distinguished as the Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain, he is Presidential Attach to the European Council of Princes, a constitutional advisory body established in 1946. He is formally attached to the Noble Household Guard of the Royal House of Stewart, founded at St Germain-en-Laye in 1692, and is the Jacobite Historiographer Royal.
From new information gleaned from the "Dead Sea Scrolls" Gardner explains the marital status of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and the subsequent royal bloodline that they sustained through the decline of the Roman Empire. The bloodline brought to France and England by Mary Magdalene and Jesus' brother James (also known as Joseph of Arimathea), the Royal Blood of Juda or "The Sangreal". Mary Magdalene arrived in Europe carrying the child of Jesus in her womb. In effect she was the vessel that contained Christ's blood, she was The Holy Grail.
The bloodlines of several prominent European Royal Families of today are derived from the noble blood of Jesus and his brother James, most notably the Royal House of Stewart.
http://www.webpages.free-online.co.uk/portcull/bkrgrai2.htm
Gardner uses many recently discovered scources to meticulous annotate his theory.
Okay, Willowtree, I've found the works of Laurence Gardner about the Holy Grail and the Grail Kings.
I challenge you to find any theory wackier than this one and if you can't you must admit that you've been bested by me and give up your mission to bring the wackiest of theories to the EvC Forum. Do you accept my challenge? Can you find anything wackier than this or will you admit to your defeat at my hands and acknowledge that I am the new Champion of Wackery?
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