What's some --more-- juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

Not me but my DH. Back in the 90s he had a part time job in an area he was interested in. The job came to an end when the boss was arrested. It turned out he was a serial killer and is currently serving a whole life tariff in jail.

Yep, I realised George I & Sophia were first cousins, and William & Mary recently, as well as Queen V of course. Awful.

If you do Ancestry DNA, you might be able to work it out, if any relatives of his have also done it.

Not acceptable for Catholics and I believe illegal for cousins to marry in primarily Catholic countries

Acceptable for Muslims (I think)

Allowed under UK law but to most people it’s seen as a bit ‘icky’.

I have a friend whose daughter is the result of a two-night conference "affair" with a senior manager she used to work with.

He is now the CEO of a (different) large company in the UK. He and his wife have three children, the youngest of which is only a few weeks older than my friend's daughter.

He has no relationship with my friend or her daughter and they never see him or have any direct contact. However, he provides generously financially, including school fees and investments for her future. All arrangements are made through his solicitor. My friend is sworn to secrecy.

As far as I am aware, I am the only person other than my friend and this man who know who her daughter's father is.

"The best spouse for a Hapsburg is another Hapsburg".

Have a look at the family tree of Charles II of Spain if you dare.

Its extemely sad my son is disabled and goes to a special school
All four special schools in my LA have doubled in capacity over the past 10/15 years due to the rising numbers of children with significant disaabillties
And i do think one of the reasons is the Demographics of the LA.

I had my eldest DC in a city where this is more common than usual. At the time they also had a high rate of infant mortality (not sure if this is still the case- we moved). I was very stressed about this and asked the midwife if I should consider transferring to a different city to give birth. She said it’s because cousins get married, the babies are born very sick and die. I thought that was sad.

Yes i know ,and its generational

So successive generations all marrying their first cousins.

And previously the upper classes in the UK, and of course, the royals.

In British Pakistani and Traveller families...😢

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That's despicable. He deserves better & someone needs to tell him. Anonymous note.

I’m pretty sure this is illegal in some places - can't remember the term for it.

My 'birth story' is sort of similar in that my birth mother became pregnant as the result of an affair when her husband was in jail. She already had 3 children to her husband, girl aged 2 and boys approximately 5 and 7. All this according to my mum who met my birth mother and her children as part of the private adoption. Mum said she didn't know what my BM said to others and didn't know if her 2 sons knew she'd had a baby, it was never part of any conversation. I assume that IF anyone knew she was pregnant chances are they were either told the truth or that the baby (me) had died.

No one needed to know I'd been given up for adoption. It's not like it's public record. I assume if this woman in the PP's hid her pregnancy she just would have surrendered the baby at birth as my BM did so no one would have been the wiser. She could have told her coworkers that she'd had an emergency appendectomy or some other medical 'emergency'.

As far as hiding a pregnancy, I'm sure there was probably plenty of gossip in the office. Unless someone is quite a bit overweight, there's always the 'is she or isn't she' when a coworker gains a bit in the tummy.

in the ancient times it was used to keep the various families in power,

chatgpt for that

I imagine:

stepdad = mum’s husband
stepmum = dad’s wife

Cousin marriages is one of the reasons that some cultures in which it's common have an excessive number of hereditary diseases.

I recall watching a programme years ago set in wartime where a man comes home on leave. When they are getting ready for bed he got a long thin tin from a drawer, removed from it a huge rubber condom shaped thing and asked his wife if she's washed it since its last outing! If looked to be made of thick rubber, sensitivity not likely.

Why did a brand new car, a couple of months old, need an MOT?

As happens to us all I got press ganged (I think its really crimped in the Merch) as a stoker in the Merchant Navy. Worked alongside someone who looked like Dave Lister & sounded like Rab C Nesbit.

We were in the Missions to Seaman one night when the mate kicked off about the bosun. A soft spoken widowed Scot in his mid 60's

Turns out in true sailor style he had a girl in every port, now if you are on the old Queen Mary doing Southampton to New York thats one thing but our daily grind was something like Bristol - Clevedon - Penarth - Ilfracombe one day, Swansea Ilfracombe & Lundy the next etc, the joy of a Home Trade passenger ship.

They anew about each other, several were married and quite a few expected to marry him. Aged between late 20's and late 70's It had caused some trouble as crew going on there breaks could find a woman in each corner of the mess glaring at each other and Mr Bosun sitting in the middle of it all tucking into a boiled egg.

This must have been about 1990.

Girl I worked with was about 17, her 'mother' wasnt her mother. Her dad had an affair with his mothers best friend, also married and she was the result.

'mother' and bio mum didnt fall out over it

My colleague knew as did the bio mums sons who were a similar age and they hammed it no end pretending to get romantic while the adults went bonkers .

He has better hurry up. My divorce has taken 9mths or so and that’s with us both agreeing on stuff

if wedding is before 9mths. Hes screwed

FFS is that all we get?