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Royal genealogy

From Dr A. W. Harrison-Barbet
The Times
From Dr A. W. Harrison-Barbet
The Times

Sir, It’s fun to speculate, but the claim that Uberto Omar Gasche could have been king (report, February 14) commits a common fallacy of assuming that if the first event in a causal sequence is altered, subsequent events in the chain will be unchanged.

Suppose the putative James III had ascended the throne. All subsequent events of his life would have been temporally and spatially different — not least, the times of conception of any children. The Signor Gasche who currently lives in Italy might never have been born.

Yours truly,

A. W. HARRISON-BARBET,

14 Connolly Street,

Bandon,

Co Cork, Republic of Ireland.

hbarbet@utvinternet.com

February 14.