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...daughter I would never let her marry into the imperial family." MIDORI WATANABE Japanese royal watcher and author of The Princesses of the Imperial Family, on reports that Empress Michiko (right) suffered from severe stress. Crown Princess Masako, like Michiko a commoner who married a prince, has reportedly battled depression since joining the royal family...
...threat. They do now. Bayrou, 55, has jacked up his unlikely campaign for the French presidency into a real threat to the candidates who had until now been established front runners, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal. A recent poll put Bayrou and Royal in a dead heat for second place. If his rising trend continues, he could beat her in the first round of the elections on April 22. Only the top two finishers will qualify for the second round on May 6, where...
...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...