King Michael Of Australia
Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (22 July 1942 – 30 June 2012) was a British Australian, who is most noted because of the documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England instead of Queen Elizabeth II. He was born in England and educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire, but emigrated to Jerilderie, New South Wales as a teen, where he lived out life as a rice farmer and family man.
The claim for Abney-Hastings as a pretender to the English throne relates to his descent from George Plantagenet as his heir-general, tied in with the alleged illegitimacy of Edward IV of England.
He died on 30 June 2012.
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