LONDON (Reuters) – When it comes to American presidential
elections, blue blood counts.
So say British researchers who predict Democratic
challenger John Kerry will oust President George W. Bush on
Nov. 2 simply because he boasts more royal connections than his
Republican rival.
After months of research into Kerry’s ancestry, Burke’s
Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported Monday that
the Vietnam War veteran is related to all the royal houses of
Europe and can claim kinship with Tsar Ivan “The Terrible,” a
previous emperor of Byzantium and the shahs of Persia.