Mike
Hastings of Jerilderie, Australia passed away at the age of 71. He was a
forklift driver by trade. But according to one understanding of British
history, he should have sat on the royal throne in place of Elizabeth
II:
He made international headlines in 2004 when a
documentary team from Britain’s Channel Four conducted extensive
research into the monarchy and concluded his ancestors were cheated out
of the crown in the 15th century. [...]
Hastings was a descendant of England’s House of York, whose dynastic
struggle with the House of Lancaster became known as the Wars of the
Roses and was dramatised by William Shakespeare.
The British documentary’s historian Michael Jones found documents in
France’s Rouen Cathedral that he believed showed King Edward IV, who
ruled with a brief interruption from 1461 to 1483, was illegitimate.
Jones believes that Edward’s father Richard of York was fighting the
French at Pontoise when he was conceived, while his mother Cecily was
200 kilometres (125 miles) away at Rouen, allegedly in the amorous arms
of an English archer.
If true, the crown should have passed on to Edward’s younger brother
George, the duke of Clarence, who was a direct ancestor to Hastings.
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