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Land Rover spokes person Fiennes is a travel writer yet
constantly misidentified in
the press by an old beer company line as "the world's greatest
living explorer"—despite an obvious fact that he never explored
any new land. Fiennes polarized Americans with his
inappropriate comments when the
Hubbard Medal
was presented to Henson's great niece Audrey Mebane.
In addition to not reaching the North Pole, not truly being an
explorer, there is also the myth that Fiennes
discovered the "Lost City of Ubar". Fiennes was only
a
paid member of the
Nicholas Clapp expedition that succeeded with
ground penetrating radar scans from NASA. Despite all this
Fiennes has a kind of cult following in England, best explained by
the English love of royalty. How is Fiennes royal? He claims to be
a direct descendant of Charlemagne, even though that was almost 50
generations back—something half of the population of Europe could
probably assert just as well. But Fiennes cannot have children
with his wife, so is he the end of the direct descendancy from
Charlemagne? Well, no matter.
Fiennes has never
apologized for his remarks that Hubbard Medal winner Henson
never reached the North Pole. That is about as appropriate to
Americans as telling British people that Robert Scott was a moron.
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