Monday 11 August 2008

Posh has a Marxist connection

London (ANI): While she is a superstar in her possess right, Victoria Beckham as well has a family line of descent that can leave many people impressed she is descended from a brother of Karl Marx, the father of Communism. Hans Mueller, a historian in the metropolis of Heilbronn found that the ex-Spice Girl's great-great-great-grandad Carl Pfaender was a German revolutionary and was a close associate of Marx.

Mueller said that Pfaender, wHO was born in 1819, fled to London after uprisings failed to oust Germany's monarch in 1848. He so started a new living as a miniature portraiture painter until he died aged 57. "He for sure didn't have rich doing it. His wife was buried in a pauper's grave," The Sun quoted Hans, as saying.



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