A medieval historian says an Australian forklift driver is the rightful King of England.

Dr Michael Jones says Queen Elizabeth's claim to the throne is false because her ancestor, Edward IV, was illegitimate. The crown should have passed through the Plantagenet line, which today ends with Michael Abney-Hastings, 62.

Dr Jones told the BBC that Edward IV, who reigned from 1461 to 1483, was conceived while his parents were 160 kilometres apart. His father, Richard Duke of York, was at war near Paris, while his mother, Lady Cicely Neville, was in Rouen, where she was said to be having an affair with a local archer.

Mr Abney-Hastings, who lives in Jerilderie, 640 kilometres (400 miles) south-west of Sydney, said it was "very unlikely" he would go to London and demand entry at Buckingham Palace.

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