Saturday 15 November 2008

Ahead By Half

America can crow, and not without cause, about Obama.

But Heads of State who are at least half-foreign are nothing new to us.

Indeed, the Queen is the first since Elizabeth I of England and her cousin James V of Scotland to have both parents and all four grandparents born in these islands.

Unless I am very much mistaken.

Am I?

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