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Kings and Queens were created out of Europeans fighting one another and stealing each other's land and resources. That's how William The Conqueror took control of England in 1066.

All of those fake titlies i.e. Duke, Lord, Earl, Viscount etc were nothing more than a way for people who thought they above the commoners to exert control and hoard all the land which is what led to British people settling in what became America.

In England at that time, if you weren't part of the aristocracy, you were considered a peasant and a nobody and the only way you could get land was if you were born into the right family.

Little known fact is that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries British aristocrats who owned large estates could no longer afford the upkeep so they came looking in America for wealthy daughters of America's wealthiest families. The tv show "Downtown Abbey" is loosely based on that.

America's wealthiest families wanted a place in the upper echelon of British society so they started marrying their daughters off to aristocrats in exchange for money to help keep up the estates and a place in British society among the aristocrats.

Not many people know that Sir Winston Churchill, the late former British PM was the son of an American woman named Jenny Jerome and Lord Randolph Churchill. Jerome was born in Brooklyn in 1854. Her father was a financier named Leonard Jerome. Men like Leonard Jerome wanted a place at the table of British aristocracy so they married their daughters off to men who were in the aristocracy who needed money. I'd say they were pimping their daughters but that's just me.

The late Princess Diana's great-grandmother was an American socialite named Frances Ellen Work. Her great-great-grandchildren include Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. Princess Diana's and Prince Charles' sons.

Francis Work was born in NY in 1857 to a stockbroker father named Franklin Work a protege and friend to one Cornelius Vanderbilt. Francis Work was married to James Boothby Burke Roche.

I am willing to bet not many Americans even know this.

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