That “Grail Blood” thing again? I love it!
This all seems to have started – at least, in the modern public eye – in 1982, when BBC journalists Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh published Holy Blood, Holy Grail. This book asserts that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children; they migrated to Gaul; they founded a line that eventually became, or married into, the Frankish royal house of the Merovingians. There is a secret society called “The Priory of Sion” which exists to safeguard the bloodline, and, perhaps, to someday install its heir as emperor of a united Europe. All this is somehow associated with a town in southern France, Rennes-le-Chateau; with a medieval Jewish principality in Septimania, in southern France; and with a medieval Manichean or Gnostic-Christian religious cult known as the Cathars, which thrived in southern France until exterminated by the Catholic Church in the “Cathar Crusade.”
There is a pretender to the Scottish throne, a Belgian named Michael LaFosse who styles himself “Prince Michael of Albany,” and claims to be a direct descendant of Charles Edward Stuart (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”) through his legitimate son (unknown to conventional history books) by his second marriage (likewise). He also claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (and the prophet Mohammed, too) – but he seems to regard this as being much less important than being descended from the royal Stewarts/Stuarts. (You can check out the website of the “Royal House of Stewart” at http://www.royalhouseofstewart.org.uk/.)
However, Prince Michael’s “historiographer royal,” Laurence Gardner, has written several books about the supposed bloodline of Jesus, most notably, Bloodline of the Holy Grail. Gardner’s website is athttp://www.graal.co.uk/. In his other books, Gardner asserts that Moses and the Egyptian “heretic pharoah” Akhenaten were the same person, and ancestor of David and Jesus; and descended, moreover, from the “Annunaki” gods of Mesopotamian legend, who were either extraterrestrial or extradimensional beings, or humans genetically modified by such beings.
(Prince Michael should not be confused with the more conventionally recognized “Jacobite” claimant to the British throne, Prince Franz von Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria. You can read about him at the “Jacobite Heritage” website, http://members.rogers.com/jacobites/.)
And there’s a magazine called Dagobert’s Revenge, which is devoted to the “Grail Blood” theory and related esoterica. You can check it out at http://www.dagobertsrevenge.com/. (Dagobert was a Merovingian king of the Franks who was murdered under mysterious circumstances.) DR has run articles on many supposed branches of the “Desposyni” or Jesus-descendants, including the Austrian Hapsburgs and others.
But this is the first time I’ve ever heard Princess Di’s name mentioned in connection with all this! Could you provide a cite, teemingONE?