Grail Gossip

"Did Jesus marry and have children? What happened to his family? Are descendants of his still alive today? This book reveals the sacred lineage based on actual historical records. Using his personal access to the sovereign and knightly archives of Europe, and to Templar and Vatican records, Gardner has compiled one of the most amazing histories ever written."

All that Gardner (a professed "internationally known sovereign and chivalric genealogist" and royal historiographer) does, quite simply, is rely on the works of previous writers who are quite nearly as uncritically insane as he is. Ahmed Osman, who asserts that Moses was actually Akhenaten. Baigent and Leigh, the Dead Sea Scroll conspiracy cretins. Barbara Thiering. Lots and lots of Barbara Thiering. Bloodline of the Holy Grail is nothing but conspiracy-theory, second hand, mixed in with an overwhelming host of extremely bad arguments that we've already had our day with on these pages and others.

With this consideration, it is no surprise that this book -- the premise of which is that the "Holy Grail" is actually a royal bloodline, descended from David through Jesus to certain people of the present day -- is endorsed by only one person, a certain "Prince Michael of Albany". I'll give you three guesses as to who the bloodline ends up with in modern times, and you won't need two of them....and you don't need to guess that this Michael guy might be in La La Land himself. Don't let the thick bibliography fool you into thinking that this guy has done any homework: Bloodline of the Holy Grail is sensationalist trash for the National Enquirer crowd. And second-hand trash, at that!