Beautiful Royals - spreading beauty wherever they go

Although I can't imagine myself feeding an elephant while dressed for a Vogue magazine layout, there's no doubt how Her Royal Highness Kate Middleton makes it all look completely right. In fact, Prince William and Princess Kate are just extraordinary humanitarian leaders and wonderful role models for the world, at a time when we desperately need to believe in goodness.  In their visit to India, the Royal couple have spread beauty in a land where the population density is imploding the nation's ability to feed itself.  Indeed, the Royals played cricket (Kate with wedge heel shoes on) and they kept their extraordinary cool in spite of what, I'm sure, can be a dusty and hot  environment.

My goodness- archery in heels? Now, that's precision fashion!

Kudos to the British Royals.They brought attentiont to the plight of endangered animals, particularly the elephants. Also, they visited the wretchedly poor in places where, I'm sure, many middle class people would avoid going, rather than embrace.  

While sad Syrian refugees are struggling to escape tyranny, war and the loss of their homes.  While terrorists spread fear with the mere threat of violence.  While poverty and disease continue to prevent people from aspiring to succeed.  In the face of global risks of war and pandemic diseases like Zika virus and Ebola.....in spite of all this....we see Princess Kate and Prince William spreading beauty wherever they go.  

Royals feed baby elephants and discuss the sadness of poaching in India 13 April 2016 Last updated at 20:12 BST= reports BBCNews
Nicholas Witchell reports.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been on safari in India, as their tour of South Asia continues. The royal couple are visiting Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site, in Assam.

They are hoping to draw attention to the plight of endangered animals, including the park's population of rare one-horned rhinos.

While Princess Kate tried to accomplish archery, it was her high heels that were obviously more stunning than her aim.  But, she spread beauty wherever she went, and her infectious smile was a beacon of hope for the people who will always remember- and tell their own children about, the day when the young Royals visited them in India.

Princess Kate Middleton Mountbatten-Windsor - A Stunningly Beautiful Mother and Social Equalizer

Princess Kate, as she's lovingly known, will soon be the world's most beautiful mother.  In her labor and delivery experience, however, she is like every other mother who has ever given birth, since the beginning of time.  

Birthing a baby is the social equalizer that unites all mothers. Giving birth to an English Royal is what makes HRH Kate such a stunning enigma.  She's a royal lady who was born from the common people and, thereby, represents all people.  Today, in the birth experience she shares with all mothers who came before her, she also represents the best of the human condition - IE, bringing forth new life. 

Although she is giving new birth, new life and hope to the English monarchy, her labor and delivery is an experience all cultures recognize as being difficult.  Yet, through her common experience, shared with the world, she has the extraordinary joy of bringing a new Royal into the world, a child who will eventually inherit the magnificence and challenges of being the monarch of Britain's Royal Empire.

We love and admire Princess Kate for graciously leading her family toward a new generation of Mountbatten-Windsors, while staying close to her own family's middle class roots in the English ancient Reading-Berkshire town, in the Thames Valley.  

Kate came from a decidedly working-class stock of coal miners and builders. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy Goldsmith, became the first member of the family to attempt to improve the family's social and economic status. Dorothy pushed her children to aim high and, as a result, Kate's mother became an airline hostess. It was on this job that Kate's mother Carole met dispatcher Michael Middleton. The couple married soon after.

The rest of Kate's biography, of course, transcends the ordinary. Kate Middleton has certainly created non-fiction from fairy tale fiction, as she epitomizes George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", the story line for "My Fair Lady". She's forever part of the world order of brilliant super stars, giving life to a fresh generation of English Royals.  

Meanwhile, Princess Kate is laboring, sharing this common experience with every mother before her. Nevertheless, she's the world's most beautiful role model for motherhood. 

As Kate Middleton became HRH Catherine Elizabeth Middleton Moutbatten-Widsor, she has created a world class image of a stunningly beautiful wife, mother and social equalizer. 

HRH Prince William, the future king, is certainly lucky to have found Kate because, frankly, his former, rather plain, appearance has certainly improved since he married her.  Now, with Kate, William's royal family will inherit England's future, as a result of their child.  All the world senses hope for the human condition, as we await the newest English Royal, thanks to Kate. 

Congratulations to William and Kate's growing family.  

Princess Kate is bridging the Royals with all of humanity.  She's a role model for all women, as well as a social equalizer in her work as a mother and in her humanitarian endeavors.  Hip! Hip! Hurray!

Genealogy and Immigration - Republicans and Their Own Ancestry

Before creating daunting immigration policies intended to undermine the political influence of America's newest citizens, US Republicans might consider figuring their own individual genealogical ancestry.  As individuals and as a group, they will undoubtedly find surprises in their ancestral DNA, the genetic building block of life.  Genetic discoveries should be a reality check to mitigate onerous immigration policies.

Human migrations with racial mixing has overcome eons of taboos and societal norms, now documented through DNA testing.  

In other words, immigration regulations that Republicans are debating, designed to suppress Democratic voters who might be immigrants, is a waste of time, especially considering the surprising diversity of our own origins.  

Genealogy research is becoming increasingly fascinating, as biologists determine the particular origins of certain human genetic markers in our DNA, known as the building block of life.
Although genealogy is typically traced via a series of often complicated charts, saliva testing now determines evidence of ancestral migrations going back thousands of years. 

Two prominent world leaders have fascinating genealogies atypical of their apparent racial status.  

Prince William of England is Caucasian, but he is now reported to have a genetic marker relating him to a Southeast Asian woman.  

President Barack Obama is an African American whose mother was an American Caucasian and father was a citizen of Ghana; yet, Mr. Obama's  genealogy includes an ancestor who was born in Ireland.  

England's Prince William has Asian ancestry.  

Genetic testing from Prince Williams's mother's lineage, a male cousin of Princess Diana, shows the second in line to the British throne and, therefore, future King of England, has a genetic marker from an Asian woman in India.

London (CNN) -- Britain's royal family has long been taunted for its German roots, but now a more exotic lineage can be revealed after evidence emerged indicating that Prince William is the direct descendant of an Indian woman.

The Duke of Cambridge's maternal lineage was revealed on Friday by a genetic ancestry testing company, BritainsDNA, which carried out tests on the DNA of Princess Diana's two matrilineal cousins and compared them to a global database of samples.

Genetic tests reveal that the prince's fourth great-grandmother was the daughter of Eliza Kewark and Theodore Forbes (1788-1820), a Scottish merchant who worked in Surat, north of what is now Mumbai, India.  

Kewark's mitochondrial DNA -- which is only passed on from mother to child -- was then passed down, the company says, through the couple's daughter and female descendants, one of whom, Frances Roche (1936-2004), married Earl Spencer and bore a daughter, Lady Diana Spencer, the prince's mother.

Jim Wilson, chief scientist at Britains DNA, told CNN the discovery means "William probably has a very small amount (of Indian DNA), maybe half a percent will be of South Asian heritage."

President Obama has even more than a genetic marker, as his family tree in Ireland is well researched and his ancestry is documented.

Barack Obama's Irish family tree is traced to the 17th century. Shedding light on his earliest known relatives, researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Irish Origins traced Obama's family history much further back than ever before. Obama's earliest known relative, his 6th great grandfather, was a member of a family of wealthy wig makers who included an Irish politician, Michael Kearney. (It was said that 'no man alive was equally fired with ambition'.) 

A wonderfully entertaining literary example, describing the futility of protecting ancestral purity, is in the writings of American novelist James Michner.  His novels about the American experience are entertaining and historic, while the basis of his 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning Tales of the South Pacific and, much later "Texas: A Novel" emphasized the ridiculous practice of limiting racial (eventually, therefore, political) diversity.  A reader can consume thousands of pages of Michner's novels and come away with one succinct message - ie, diversity happens!

Although genealogy is fascinating and fun, the political reality is that, who we are today, is the result of ancestors who overcame eons of taboos against racial mixing.

Logically concluding, the intention of creating daunting anti immigration policies into the United States, with the purpose of deterring migrations from South America, Latin America and Mexico, are wasted efforts. In fact, if all geo-political systems were equal, it would make sense for Americans to be migrating into the Southern Hemisphere countries.  It's almost counter intuitive to see migrations moving north, rather than south, but Latin American countries have centuries of unstable political histories.

Since economics drives a good deal of human migrations, in every direction, it's a fact that human diversity will follow.  Therefore, Republicans should find the origins of their own genetic tree before creating cruel laws to try and change human nature.