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Yorkshire mentioned again! I hope you don't think you're in with a chance of becoming an honorary Yorkshireman.
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I thought it a bit snarky and possibly a not-so-thinly-veiled insult. Here is what I replied:
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Tasker, you obviously missed this post of mine from 2016 including its comments stream.
It's all right. I forgive you. Lao-Tze (not Confucius) said 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step' and that's enough for me.
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It is true that through my father's maternal grandmother, Bloomy Jane (Cleveland) Johnson, I may be descended from a Yorkshireman. But even though our family is related distantly to President Grover Cleveland, there is no truth to the rumor (British, rumour) that the Clevelands are descended from Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of King Henry VIII.
She was one of the lucky ones (think 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived') in that not only was she not beheaded, her marriage to the king was not even consummated. She was summarily dismissed after about six months. She could have been the mother of a Duke of York if only she had stayed. You can read all about her in the link if you like.
Here she is as painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1539.
