Comment by teleforce
14 days ago
That means they're descendent of arguably the most powerful woman in the world's history, Eleanor the Aquitaine [1].
She's married to both King of France and King of England, and mother of three kings during her lifetime including King John Lackland Plantagenet (progenitor of all 43 US presidents except one).
This takes a new meaning to the popular idiom "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree".
[1] Eleanor of Aquitaine:
Ok, being ancestor to 42 presidents is impressive, but how many loser great^30 grand kids does she have?
In a grand scale of scheme the losers do not really matter, for example imagine that the most successful VC today does have countless failed ventures but if 99% of fortune top 100 of US companies the particular VC has invested in their early startup days, I can say that's much better return than Berkshire Hathaway of Warren Buffet (and BH is not a VC company).
I disagree - there are two independent systems at play here - human success, and evolutionary success.
It's unlikely that there are many ancestors of Eleanor of Aquitaine that achieved more human success than George Washington. However, George left this world with zero descendants and his line effectively ended with him. Whereas I'm sure there are a bunch of duds out there who are the same relation to Eleanor of Aquitaine and produced 9 children who each produced a handful of children.
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