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First of many sentos
Another visit to Japan Per-Olof...a month this time. May you reach the enlightenment you may be seeking. If you can master the language hats off to you.

My Swedish Royal Heritage
I was reading excitedly your tome Per-Olof and it ended abruptly for me in 1792. Why didn't you get to Charles XIV? Jean Bernadotte a French Marshall was installed as Prince Regent of Sweden by Napoleon and became Charles XIV in 1810. He married Desiree who my maternal grandmother told me was known as Empress Eugenie and was a friend of Queen Victoria. Instead of remaining an ally of France he became patriotically Swedish and sided with other countries against France. My grandmother wrote out the history of how she traced her ancestry to that family. I'll have to find that letter that she gave me when I was a child. I cannot recall if my ancestry was to Jean Bernadotte or Empress Eugenie who came from a large family. Your blog brought it all back...then you stopped at 1792. My ancestry became somewhat muddied throughout Europe as I recall there was the Count of Teba who I think was Spanish and the Kirkpatricks...somehow resulting in an Irish connection that was my maternal grandmother. I may have speck of Swedish Royal blood flowing through my Aussie veins...significantly diluted though. I have never pursued genealogies but I gotta agree it can produce interesting histories for those who have heaps of spare time to do so. I am happy in the memories of my grandmother telling these tales to me as a wide eyed child enjoying homemade scones and icecream drinking Orange Pekoe tea. I loved my grandmother. Your blog brought memories of her back...more vivid than the histories she shared with me. Thank you for that.

Karma
I had no idea the Portuguese had conquered areas of the middle east too... their reach around the globe over a few centuries was quite impressive (regardless of what I think of their conquering and ruling ways). I totally agree with you about karma, and I especially appreciate the instant kind that you don't have to wait years for :)