Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Greg Davies discovers he has royal blood - Who Do You Think You Are? - BBC One" video.

0.22. She looks at him like he should be impressed but as soon as he's impressed she starts to try reining him back.
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Hans Tun. Everyone's a winner!
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gog *descent. Decent is something else.
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@snipper1ie To my mind a King, originally, was a warrior leader of a group of people who were able to defend themselves successfully, conquer land and steal cattle. When it became hereditary I'm not too sure. Irish Kings in Celtic times were an exception. They were elected and had to be perfect in body, but they paid the penalty if there was a drought or a famine. They would be sacrificed to the gods, and a different one elected. I'm not sure whether the Welsh had the same ritual.
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@snipper1ie Yes in Roman times a slave would do it to a Roman Emperor as they rode through the streets in a victory parade.
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Your ancestors double in number every generation you go back, so go back far enough and sooner or later everyone is bound to hit someone interesting or powerful in their genetic line. The difficulty with genealogy is finding the records to prove it, and in a sense it becomes meaningless if everyone can do this but psychologically it strikes us as being great if we are told we are descended from someone important in history.
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gog 1284. Yes
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@TransoceanicOutreach Yes, I looked it up, and the reference I found for it happening is for generals, not Emperors
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