Sunday, July 3, 2011

What to make of the Monaco wedding

The story is getting murkier and murkier.  Charlene may have tried to bolt three times, heading once to take refuge in the South African embassy in Paris. 

The sources for these articles come from serious publications, not tabloids.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/monaco/8614215/Princess-Charlene-of-Monaco-tried-to-flee-three-times.html

This leads me to a tale of a man who called himself Wilton and posted on several royal message boards for some years, and led people to believe that he was a close friend of Prince Albert.  He alleged they went to school together.  He said had (if I can recall) an English father and an American mother who was a female line descendants of the French branch of the Rothschilds.  I have a superb genealogy on the Rothschilds, and nothing was turning. A search of the Amherst yearbook also proved fruitless to find a connection to the Rothschilds and to Prince Albert.

"Wilton" was apparently shocked by the news that Albert had acknowledged two illegitimate children, as he had not known about this.

He died about three or four years ago.  According to the person who learned about his death, and who emailed me about, mentioned that he had registered for the boards under a totally different name, and it was this name that appeared in the obituary ... and there was no connection to the Rothschild, or an English father, and so on.  Wilton had concocted a false persona on the boards.  He did not know Prince Albert, did not go to school with him.  He certainly fooled a lot of people.  I believed him at first, but I began to have my doubts because of his claims to the Rothschilds.  He was unaware of the genealogy, Le Sang des Rothschild by Joseph Valynseele.  All of his "clues" about his family life were made up, he conned a lot of other posters.    Amherst has a Memory section.   A check of the Class of 1981 (and the year before and the year after) does not bring up a single obituary of anyone who matched the persona created by "Wilton."
https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/in_memory

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