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Aug. 18, 2004
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John Kerry is Ivan the Terrible’s Descendant
August 18, British Burke's Peerage has studied genealogy of US presidential contender John Kerry and found out he was Ivan the Terrible’s descendant.
John Kerry has the noblest blood of all the American presidents. His ancestors include Czar Ivan the Terrible as well as Princes Dolgoruky and Obolensky.

According to Burke's Peerage Kerry is connected to all European royal families, including the Albanian monarchy. Besides, he descends from English kings Henry II, Richard the Lionhearted, last Anglo-Saxon king Harold, Byzantine Emperor Konstantin Monomakh IX, French Francis I, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. Moreover, on his mother’s side John Kerry’s ancestors are French Henry I and his wife Anna Yaroslavna, daughter of Grand Prince of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise.



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