US woman with tattoos and nose piercing may be descendent of Queen Victoria's secret lovechild

New York Post

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A Midwestern therapist with a mullet, tattoos and nose piercing may be a descendant of Queen Victoria's secret lovechild, a British historian has claimed.
Angela Webb-Milinkovich, a mental-health practitioner from Minnesota, was named as a possible living testament to a scandalous affair between the British monarch and her devoted manservant, John Brown, by historian Fern Riddell.
Webb-Milinkovich, who is in her 40s, according to online records, doesn't look like a royal but is prepared to get a DNA test to prove whether she is.
3 Angela Webb-Milinkovich, a healthcare worker in Minnesota, may be a living descendant of Queen Victoria's secret lovechild.
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'I feel pretty confident that there's some legitimacy to [the theory],' Webb-Milinkovich told the Times of London. 'It's not something that I myself would ever be able to confirm.
'The story that my family grew up with is that John Brown and Queen Victoria had a romantic relationship,' she said, referring to the loyal aide who the royal matriarch became particularly close to after her husband Prince Albert's death.
'They went on a long boat journey. After that, a child was produced, and from that child came my family's lineage,' Webb-Milinkovich said of Brown and the queen.
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3 Queen Victoria asked to be buried with a picture of her manservant and suspected lover John Brown.
Rumors have swirled that Mary Ann Brown, Webb-Milinkovich's great-grandmother, was their lovechild.
Victoria and Brown's closeness sparked rumors in Britain, and in 1866, a Swiss newspaper reported the pair had secretly married.
Victoria even dedicated her book on highland life, published after Brown died in 1883, to him and asked to be buried with his picture.
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3 Brown was suspiciously close to blue-blooded boss Victoria, some historians say.
The rumored affair was the subject of the 1997 movie 'Mrs Brown,' which won Dame Judi Dench an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Victoria.
Although the alleged affair has been dismissed by many historians, Riddell said she has unearthed new evidence indicating a relationship.
The evidence includes a cast of Brown's hand ordered by the monarch in the days after his death, something she had previously done for her late husband.
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A previously secret diary entry from Victoria also describes how she and her 'beloved John' confessed their love for each other.
'Their relationship has been downplayed and sanitized,' Riddell told the Times of London.
'I hope we give John Brown back his place in history and his legacy, which is that he was Victoria's de facto royal consort for 20 years,' said the researcher, author of the book 'Victoria's Secret.'