[1] According to his story, the line was founded by John Hall, a son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who was born prior to the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
At the same time as Hall was declaring his lineage, there was also a Jacobite pretender to the throne, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, as well as several others for monarchies on the European mainland.
He also set forth an agenda to deal with the national debt, for the dissolution of the Government of the United Kingdom,[1] and the abolition of income tax.
[7] These claims were eventually raised with King George V, as records released in 2006 showed that the monarch had discussed this with the Private Secretary to the Sovereign, Sir Clive Wigram.
In those notes, Wigram wrote in 1931, "His Majesty quite agrees that a stop should be put to his effusions but feels that it might not look very well for a man who is obviously demented to get six months imprisonment.
"[1] Despite this request, Sir John Anderson at the Home Office decided that he was "not so obviously demented or insane that he could be dealt with without recourse to court proceedings.
[8] In London, which he pledged to rebuild to house 100 million people[9] and where he served eviction notices to the King at Buckingham Palace,[7] he was known to declare his claims loudly up to five times a day in the areas around Tower Hill and near the Woolwich Dockyard.
His defence in the matter was that the Probate Act of 1857, although signed by Queen Victoria, had never reached Royal Assent and was therefore invalid to be used in a court of law.