The French Dynasty… in India?

Reading the paper this morning, I read a story that sounded, for all intents and purposes, like a really, really painful and overzealous SCA persona. You know what I’m talkin’ about – “I was born in Ireland. My father was English, and my mother was German. I was sent to school in France, but I was kidnapped by Moors who took me through Austria. I eventually escaped, and took up with wandering gypsies who eventually arrived in Persia, where I was taught to belly dance until I became so good that I was appointed to the courts of the Russian Czars, etc., etc., etc…”

ACK! It maketh ones head for to spinne!

Well, in the paper this morning, the author speculates that IF France decided to go ahead and restore the monarchy, the heir to the French throne would, in fact, be Indian. The gentleman in question, Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, is Indian of French descent. The story relayed somethingeranother to do with a kidnapping, a shipwreck, serving as an advisor to the Indian Moghuls, etc., etc., etc. And given that the direct Bourbon line was severed with the heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antionette (who really did not look a whole heckuvalot like Kirsten Dunst!), what used to be a twig on the family tree would become the main branch.

Who knew?