Was Charles Edward Bancroft the illegitimate son of Edward VII?
Interestingly, when I first started investigating Charles Edward Bancroft there were strong family rumours about Charles being the illegitimate son of Edward VII. This was all passed down the family verbally and there is nothing written down. Because of this, in my discussion about So, who was Charles’s father?, I did not think it worthwhile mentioning it. However, could Charles really have been Edward VII’s illegitimate son? This is best addressed by a quote from a posting by Roy Stockdill in 1999 on the SOG-UK-L Archives: “RECORDS, no – much speculation, yes!!! I have a book called Edward VII’s Children by John Van Der Kiste, published by Alan Sutton in 1989. This is, of course, is about Edward’s legitimate children. However, a section reads as follows…”Before he ascended the throne, it was suggested from time to time that some of the sons and daughters of the Prince of Wales’s closest friends bore a remarkable resemblance to His Royal Highness. Sometimes this was mere coincidence,
