Daphne Blunt LIAR - claiming to be a descendant of Henry VIII
This just came up on my fyp and this girl is unhinged. She claims to be a descendant of Henry VIII and his mistress Bessie Blount and that her family was “British aristocracy for a while”. As a history nerd, I laughed when I heard it and actually I had to re-listen to that section 4-5x because I couldn’t believe that someone had the audacity to lie so boldly.
Henry VIII did have a mistress named Bessie Blount. And they did in fact have a son together, Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond. However, Henry FitzRoy was a sickly child who died at age 17. Henry did not have any children. It is absolutely impossible for Daphne to be a descendant. Henry’s wife was Mary Howard whose father was uncle to both Anne Bolelyn and Katherine Howard. If Mary had been pregnant, there’s no way that scheming bastard wouldn’t have used that to his advantage. Instead, Mary ended up losing most of her marital lands and assets because there was no evidence the marriage had ever been consummated (therefore, the marriage did not exist, according to church doctrine). She claims her ancestors were “dukes for a while” but that Dukedom died with him and wasn’t recreated until a century later. (Bessie Blount has living descendants from her other children, but the specific son Daphne mentions as her ancestor does not.)
Daphne is the one who accused Leah Kateb of cutting in line and getting her security to harass people at Coachella. Considering she’s unhinged enough to lie about one of the most provable facts in history, I think this really vindicates Leah.
Also, I’m shocked about the amount of likes and absolutely no one doubting it in the comments. So when you ask who’s making these influencers famous? That’s who.