Word: royal
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...ruled France for centuries until the guillotine ended the Bourbon line at Louis XVI in 1793. Now, Prince Michael claims Balthazar is Louis XVI's closest living relative. Still, Balthazar, who has volunteered for a DNA test to determine his credentials, is hardly the first would-be French royal to appear from unexpected quarters...
...munitions (he dubbed them "Bourbon bombs") declared in 1833 that he was Charles Louis, son of Louis XVI, thought to have died in prison following the French Revolution. Undeterred by the fact that the dauphin's name had actually been Louis Charles, Naundorff attracted followers and even penned a royal memoir detailing his escape from captivity hidden in the coffin of a dead child...
...ornithologist, artist and woodsman never pressed his own claim to the throne. But a popular myth began circulating after his death in 1851 that Haiti-born Audubon, the illegitimate son of a French sailor and a maidservant, had actually been the lost dauphin in disguise. Hints of Audubon's royal identity supposedly appear in cryptic entries in his notebooks...
...official British police investigation, which last year concluded the crash that killed Diana, Dodi and their driver in 1997 was an accident. When Butler-Sloss (who is hearing the inquest as assistant deputy coroner for inner west London after the High Court ruled she couldn't sit as deputy royal coroner) was told she already had the evidence she was asking for, she replied...
...Fayed's challenge to Butler-Sloss' decision also took issue with the fact that she was presiding over the inquest as royal deputy coroner, which gave the perception that she "lacked [the] independence" needed to remain impartial in judging whether or not the Princess and Dodi Fayed were murdered. The High Court judges agreed, ruling that if Butler-Sloss is still going to hear the case, she can't do it as the royal coroner...