[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: New Question: Brit Royalty ...? Royal Grandmother

[Shaun Hately]

On 1 Nov 2003 at 7:38, Steve wrote:

> bboy_mn:
> 
> What I was getting at, was that bonnie Prince Charlse had two
> grandmothers, one died at age 101, how old was the other one when she
> died (I assume she was Norwegian, or am I completely lost?)?

Prince Charles' other grandmother was Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria 
Von Battenberg.  She died in 1969 aged around 85 - that's from memory.

> I would like to set a president for a fan fiction that I am writing,
> that, base on unsual longevity of the Royal Family, there is the
> implication that there might be a trace, and just a trace of wizards
> blood in them.

Well, there is some longevity in the Royal Family - the Queen Mother was 101 
when she died. Princess Alice, Dowager Duchess of Gloucester, is also 101. 
 
> Since I have all the experts roused, is there any odd, slightly
> eccentric, uncle in the current Royal family in the last 100 years
> that I could twist into being a wizard in my story?

If *I* was going to do that, I'd probably use Henry, Duke of Gloucester. Just 
because he's fairly closely related, but wasn't particularly prominent, and there 
were some stories of eccentricity. And he was the husband to Princess Alice, 
above. He lived to be 74, IIRC. He's Charles... great-uncle, I think.


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