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(Photo by Toby Buckell.)

…and could some real descendant through the female line be traced out, in the present distracted state of unhappy Greece, their presence at this moment would be hailed with enthusiasm, while, instead of her cruel state of anarchy under a foreigner, the children of Greece would enthusiastically embrace the fortuitous advent of restoration to her legitimate rights and libety, under a descendant of the illustrious Paleologi.

— “Ferdinand Paleologus, the Last of the Greeks”, Henry J. Bradfield, The Gentleman’s Magazine vol. 19 (January 1843), pp. 17-21