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Racial Disaster in the U.K.: Pushkin's Blood Flows in the Veins of the Future Kings of England

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From: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
Date: 20000430
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
04-30-2000
Racial Disaster in the U.K.: Pushkin's Blood Flows in the Veins of the
Future Kings of England

The biological aunt of Britain's Prince Philip was the great-granddaughter
of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, who has been identified as a descendant
of Ethiopian slaves.(*) Prince Philip is the father of Prince Charles, the
current heir apparent to the British throne, and Philip is the grandfather
of Prince William, second in line to the throne.

The irony in the story is that Prince Philip, who on several occasions has
come under fire for making ...

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