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Thread ID: 121787	2011-11-13 15:10:00	Who ARE These People - Anyway?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1243323	2011-11-13 15:10:00	We got some oddball happenings here in our Aliso Viejo (maps.google.com Viejo,+CA&gl=us&ei=Pdq_Ts2CMsaztweCvMS2Bg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQ8gEwAA) area of Orange County - about 100 miles from me while I'm still in Anza::: Court Rules O.C. Family Is Blood Nobility British tabloids might start this column with something like, "The case of the bigamist duke from Down Under." .....ibid: ...but the focus should be less on the disgraced British aristocrat than it is on his ex-wife, son and daughter who remain in Aliso Viejo after a divorce so bitter that police oversaw child transfers. Wendy Montagu (Picture:: images.onset.freedom.com) says she was swept off her feet by a fast-talking, handsome man who introduced himself as Lord Alex with a gold-embossed card bearing his family crest. Her teenage son, Alexander, could inherit one of Britain's most plagued peerages. Her daughter, Ashley Montagu, is the younger of their two children. MORE PHOTOS » www.ocregister.com So the start of this story is of a young viscount who played hide-and-seek with Michael Jackson, his 12-year-old sister whom some Brits call Lady Ashley and their mother who met the now-infamous duke in 1992 at Santa Ana's Crazy Horse Saloon (www.casenet.com). Wendy Buford Montagu, then 24, didn't know it, but her fateful meeting at the Crazy Horse was after the 13th Duke of Manchester was accused of trying to shoot his first wife with a speargun. That would be the wife whom Duke Alexander Charles David Drogo Montagu apparently 'forgot to mention' when he married Wendy Buford in 1993 at the courthouse in Santa Ana. FAMILY LINEAGE Visiting the Montagus of Aliso Viejo is nothing like visiting the estate that was once the domain of the Montagus of Manchester, England. Wendy rents a three-bedroom, three-bath townhouse with combo kitchen, dining and living room. The traditional Montagu home was Kimbolton Castle (www.kimbolton.cambs.sch.uk), also home to King Henry VIII's first queen, Catherine of Aragon. It became the Montagu residence in 1615 and encompassed 3,300 acres. Rebuilt as a Tudor manor, the palace was sold in 1950 by the Duke of Manchester while he was living in Kenya. Five years later, a second castle in Northern Ireland, this one called Tandragee, was sold. If those tidbits of family history sound colorful, buckle up. Plowing through old and new reports is something like following a reality show one might call "Dukes of Hazard." In Australia's Sunday Telegraph, Philip Sherwell writes (www.telegraph.co.uk), "The excesses reached their apogee with the four-times married 12th duke, Angus, a conman who was jailed in the U.S. for fraud, ran brothels in Australia and was so overweight when he died in 2002 that he had to be removed from his flat by a crane." Of Wendy's former husband, Sherwell states: "The 13th Duke has lived up – or down – to his genes. He was twice convicted of fraud in Australia and later deported from Canada for entering the country illegally, but not before striking up a relationship with an erstwhile stripper and falsely claiming to be a second cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales, and 52nd in line to the throne." Yeah - well now it gets wacky-er! ::: THE AMERICAN BRANCH Despite the publicity surrounding the father of her children, Wendy is determinedly upbeat. Born in Costa Mesa and a 1985 graduate of Estancia High School, Wendy grew up in a very different world from her future husband, who came of age in Australia. The daughter of a construction worker and a former waitress, Wendy got a job as a receptionist for a legal firm when she was 19. She bought a car, moved into her own apartment and caught occasional shows with gal pals. Life was good. Then Wendy was standing in line at the Crazy Horse. A fast-talking, handsome man introduced himself with a gold-embossed card bearing his family crest. Wendy says her first mistake was talking to the man who matched the bravado of the fellow in "Crocodile Dundee." Her second mistake was giving him her phone number. The third mistake can't be printed in a family news article. Wendy wonders what her life would be like if she'd gone somewhere else that night. But she waves away the thought, looking at her 18-year-old son, Alex, sitting to her left, and her daughter, Ashley, sprawled on the carpet. There's MUCH MUCH more to this story here::: www.ocregister.com Can't youse Upsidedowners and your brethren South Of The Equator Neighbors keep your collective crazy people in bounds?	SurferJoe46 (51)
1243324	2011-11-13 18:52:00	Didn't you know the English exported their criminals to Oz and the good people to NZ? If America had kept the Queen as head of state instead of all those jumped up Presidents then you would have had news of the Dukes antics would have been shared with you	gary67 (56)
1243325	2011-11-13 20:51:00	'Shared' with us? No-thanks! Sounds like too much inbreeding to me. :/	SurferJoe46 (51)
1243326	2011-11-14 05:40:00	Can't youse Upsidedowners and your brethren South Of The Equator Neighbors keep your collective crazy people in bounds? Jeez SJ, don't get me started on your US wackos! The permanently delayed Wacko Jacko is good for starters, then there's 90% of the inmates of Hollywood, followed by the host of good 'ol boys who don't think it's a good night out unless somebody punches them in the tooth, after them we'll move on to the conspiracy theory crew (moon landings, who shot Kennedy, 9-11 a government plot, the alien farm somewhere in Arizona or some other god-forsaken place, then there's that crazy gun thing, just under two deaths every 30 minutes or 30,000 per year (for all reasons). I'd better stop here though, because in my seven or so trips to the US, I found you guys to be the nicest bunch of gun-totin' wackos I've ever met. I was in Chicago quite a few years back and rolled up to various hotels and all were full, then at the last one, a guy standing next to me told the clerk to give me his key because he was going to be out all night on the birds and booze anyway. Now that is hospitality! So go figure.:confused; Cheers Billy 8-{) :D	Billy T (70)
1243327	2011-11-14 14:38:00	<snippity, snip> the alien farm somewhere in Arizona or some other god-forsaken place, <more snipping> Cheers Billy 8-{) :D I agree with all you said and I too am amazed at the things done here in Lotus Land . Personally I can't wait to see California in my rear view mirrors . But do tell - are they really growing and harvesting aliens in Arizona or sumplace else? Where do they get the seeds and what fertilizers do they use? No wonder that controlling the inflow of aliens from Mexico is so hard - they're being planted and grown right here in the US of A! ------ unless you mean the 'other kind' of aliens? PS: I'd be nice to ya even though I don't own a firearm .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1243328	2011-11-14 18:46:00	The USA has whackos? They're not whackos, we've got people who voted for Rodney Hyde. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1243329	2011-11-14 18:51:00	The USA has whackos? They're not whackos, we've got people who voted for Rodney Hyde and John Key. ;) fixed that for ya	gary67 (56)
1243330	2011-11-14 19:03:00	Even Ripley would have trouble with that, but Tui might use it ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1243331	2011-11-14 19:27:00	PS: I'd be nice to ya even though I don't own a firearm. To be honest, I never met a yank that I didn't like, except perhaps for my College French teacher back in the years of JFK, but that was probably because I hated French. However he must have been effective, because I can still count in french, read a little and speak enough to make a Frenchman gag. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D	Billy T (70)
1243332	2011-11-14 19:52:00	To be honest, I never met a yank that I didn't like, except perhaps for my College French teacher back in the years of JFK, but that was probably because I hated French. However he must have been effective, because I can still count in french, read a little and speak enough to make a Frenchman gag. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D I only learned a short poem in French ---- something about 'counting to three and going into the woods'. It escapes me now.	SurferJoe46 (51)
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