Louis XVII

The Veiled Prophet of Khorasan, claimant.

Louis XVII, claimant.

William Shakespeare, claimant.

Arthur Orton, claimant.

Yeah.

Um, probably the biggest nail in the coffin in my book for that theory is, remember the story goes that during the French Revolution, um, Louis and Marie Antoinette's kids were imprisoned, and the heir, Louis XVII, supposedly survived and was taken over to America and started an empire, uh, backed by American industry, and that's how this person might have gotten to the top, was, you know, owning all the railroads and stuff like that.

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Um-

Right.

But, but there's an even, even, uh, more dramatic point to this.

So it's pretty well documented that, that Louis XVII, as a young kid, imprisoned during the French Revolution, um, died after a year or so in that prison.

Well, they actually have his heart.

At the time her father is executed, that's her age.

The younger of her two children, who she has with her, is the erstwhile Dauphin, so the heir to the throne, and this is a, a little boy called Louis Charles, and he had become the Dauphin on the 4th of June 1789 with the death of his elder brother.

I think perhaps it's forgotten that one of the reasons that Louis XVI is distracted in the buildup to the fall of, of the Bastille is that he is a bereaved parent.

He has lost, lost his beloved elder son.

His parents were crushed.

They were crushed by the loss of this child, and it took them out of the picture at a crucial point in the beginning of the revolution.

Louis Charles had been four at the time, and so by the time his, his father is executed, he is seven, and he turns eight on the 27th of March 1793.

And all things considered, he's quite a sunny child.

Footnote 1.

Nondorf, a watchmaker who at the time of the July monarchy attempted to pass himself off for Louis XVII.

This salon was on the edge of the clerical world, and many religious came here at the risk of their reputations.

The dinners were discriminately, if unconventionally, ordered.

This is the fate of Marie Antoinette's son.

So he's the boy, little boy, who royalists regard as Louis XVII.

And his fate is a very, very sad story.

So don't miss it.

Right.

And that would make Donald actually Louis Charles.

And like, what? You know? But the whole thing about this is that Louis XVI was executed, and then Marie Antoinette was executed, and their young son had been imprisoned in the Temple of Paris.

Then they were like, hey, is this...

Is this true? Like, is this really it? And Donald was like, oh, yeah, that's exactly what happened.

So, Harold was, being an investigator, he started to fact-check Donald, right? Donald had supplied some information about this theatrical performance, production, that really, Harold was like, oh, fuck.

Like, this is, he might actually be Louis Charles and all of this, but he found that Some of the obscure details were correct, but it also looked like Shirley could have known that information as well.

Certain things had been played on a radio play that had those same details, and it was that very day that this all happened.