Man I just met saying he is royalty...should I be concerned?

[Outcast]

People tend to get infuriated with people who call their bluff. I think you dodged a bullet. I'm sure he's a major case.

[ilmw]

Ask him if his buddies are Napolean, Ceasar and Jesus?

 

Sounds like they may be sharing the same room... and Meds:rolleyes:

[burning 4 revenge]

He very quickly sent a reply. It was this;

 

"My dear woman, it is no different than someone mentioning they are a priest or a physician...However, I can infer from the terse nature and content of your note that you have no desire to continue correspondence."

 

That was it. He did not sign his name or anything.

 

(Oh, by the way, in answer to someones question, he was born in Alabama and lives in Kentucky.)

 

:lmao: He was born in Alabama and lives in Kentucky and he speaks like this!

He's either totally insane or he's one hilarious motherf*cker!

[RecordProducer]

"You asked me what I would say if you told me that you are a Marquis and heir to a Papal Dukedom. I would say, "I hope you have a really good reason for saying something like that" and then I would be concerned.

 

I would be concerned because if it was true I would wonder why you would tell someone you do not even know something like that. And if it was not true, I would wonder why you would even hint at something like that. "

You're indeed making a big deal out of a noble title. You should have said something neutral like: "Titles are certainly flattering, but a good person is what I am looking for."

 

If he is aristocracy descendant, "something like that" is the most natural thing for him and you showed that for you it's "something like that."

"My dear woman, it is no different than someone mentioning they are a priest or a physician...However, I can infer from the terse nature and content of your note that you have no desire to continue correspondence."

He is right. And he was disappointed in your response. Royalty and aristocracy are two different things. Paul McCartney has the title "Sir" that he received from the English queen. But he is not a prince. His children can be drug addicts and total losers, but they will belong to aristocracy.

 

Kings have always given titles as they wished. Int he past it did mean that someone was educated and rich, unlike the mob. However nowadays they don't differ from anyone else in the society just because they're noble. if they're rich then they're rich, but not the only rich people in the world.

 

But he's probably just a big "nobody."

 

One more note: it's not nice to show people that you don't believe them when you don't have a proof that they're not telling the truth. You can ask additional questions and evaluate the answers in your head, you don't have to show any astonishment or admiration, but you won't make a mistake if you show good manners and pretend that you believe them. Imagine the reverse situation.

 

When I was doing gigs, it would often happen that some 22-year old guy would hit on me and when I would tell him that I am e.g. 28, divorced with two kids, he would think that I'm pulling his leg. As much as it was a compliment for me (they thought I was very young and fit), the "you're a liar!" connotation was annoying and I certainly wouldn't have considered going out with someone who calls me a liar.

 

You are not showing how smart you are by letting people know that they can't easily fool you. You're just showing that you have to show them how smart you are.

[michelangelo]

I'd totally get into having casual dates sign reams of paperwork renouncing any claim to the throne if we somehow had a bastard child.

 

Like Prince Albert of Monaco.

 

Dous he have underlings troll for girls on the beach?

[blind_otter]

 

(Blind Otter, I really like your quote! Where did you get it?)

 

George Harrison (in my avatar, too)

[HokeyReligions]

Loved his response. I wonder how many books or quotes he went through to find that wording - and how many other women he has used it on when they called him out - that sounded like a pat response he uses regularly.

 

Carrying a title does not in any way guarantee a decent, honorable, or honest person. A title is just a title.

[burning 4 revenge]

Was'nt it George who the queen made a Marquis and an heir to the Papal Dukedom?

[Outcast]

Too bad if he was disappointed. His approach was bizarre and the remarks he wrote were, IMHO, big red flags. The whole situation sounded seriously fishy.

 

He may or may not be an inheritor of a title but to flap that about the way the tacky newly-rich flap hundred dollar bills about - for effect - indicated that he was about puffery rather than nobility. A man from Kentucky writing 'my dear woman'? He's seen a few too many episodes of 'Upstairs, Downstairs' and didn't quite catch the irony, I'm thinking. And then the fact that he got in a complete snit and blocked her when she DARED to question HIM? Nope. This was no loss at all and the OP has nothing to apologize for IMHO.

[john2776]

or maybe he's just an ass who thinks it's fun to screw with people.

To the OP: The above is correct. The guy does want to screw with your head, and he is already achieving it. I had a girl on the net once who had hinted that she was from a very weathly family. But the way she did it all with revealing her career as a model and being so wealthy rang some alarm bells and I was a little cautious. I eventually travelled to her country and discovered that she was for real. I stayed with her for 2 weeks in her million dollar apartment and had great sex, but she thought she was it-and-a-bit and treated me like dirt sometimes and loved to play mind games. After I returned home I never saw her again. But I figured I didn't have anything to be too upset about - some rich european hotty model had used me for sex for 2 weeks. Poor me. My advice to you though is STAY AWAY.

[Citizen Erased]

Americans are hilarious. You are the most class conscious people on Earth. I am from the UK and I have never met so many people who would kill their own mother just to be seen to be of a higher class then those around them.

 

The thing is, if he was really a part of the nobility then he would take it for granted that people would think him noble, not be sneaky about mentioning it to someone on the bloody Internet. I once went out with the 26th Earl of some far out minor estate in the English Countryside whom have been around for so long they don't know where they began. He was my friend in daycare and we met up later and had a few dates. I didn't even know he was "noble" because he didn't CARE and he futhermore knew I wouldn't be impressed. I read about it sometime later because he had been awarded some scholarship and they mentioned his title.

 

Whoever he was, he was yanking your chain, fully knowing you could never find out. Papal Dukedom my ass.

[magichands]

Papal Dukedom my ass.

Is there a ceremony for that?

[Adunaphel]

If he hadn't been bluffing I could understand him getting offended, but IMO he overreacted.

Blocking you was also unnecessary, and rude.

Whether he is a Marquess or not is irrilevant at this point.

[Angel291]

Thank you again to everyone for the advice

 

It helps to hear other peoples opinions...when the entire incident came up, I talked to someone about it and they seemed to agree with me but then I thought, who knows? Maybe we are two people who are just all wrong about this.

 

So hearing from other people helps me to see that I am not wrong for being concerned and thinking that regarldess of if his claim was true or not, there were red flags waving

 

Thanks!

[Citizen Erased]

Is there a ceremony for that?

 

[crazy_grl]

"My dear woman, it is no different than someone mentioning they are a priest or a physician...

 

If he really believed that, I don't think he would have asked, "what would you say if I told you that I am a Marquis and heir to a Papal Dukedom? I am not saying that I am...just asking." If he was for real and/or didn't think it was a big deal, he would have just told you.

 

I can just imagine a guy saying, "what would you say if I told you that I am a doctor? I am not saying that I am...just asking." How exactly is someone supposed to answer a question like that?

 

However, I can infer from the terse nature and content of your note that you have no desire to continue correspondence."

This guy is obviously trying to sound smarter, more sophisticated and more well-educated than he really by using big words to appear more like royalty. He didn't do a very good job. "Terse" means brief. Your reply was fairly lengthy for a simple question. Based on how he used the word, he seems to think it means "rude", but terse only implies rudeness due to the brief nature of a statement.

 

Sounds like a total phony.

[serial muse]

Excuse me? So it's only looney arses with no other way to meet people that find someone online?

 

Well yeah! I include myself, of course.

[riobikini]

re:

 

Angel: " Man I just met saying he is royalty...should I be concerned? "

 

Only if you are hellbent on continuing contact with him.

 

People like that are par for the course on internet dating sites, -it's sort of a 'watering hole' for them.

 

If you go there, -don't drink the water.

 

-Rio

[westernxer]

I said ok. In the email he sent today he asked me this question, "what would you say if I told you that I am a Marquis and heir to a Papal Dukedom?

 

This is not the Middle Ages.

[whichwayisup]

"My dear woman, it is no different than someone mentioning they are a priest or a physician...However, I can infer from the terse nature and content of your note that you have no desire to continue correspondence."

 

That was it. He did not sign his name or anything.

 

Imediately after he sent me that message, I received a automatic letter from the internet service saying that he had used the "block" function which is reserved to be used in the cases of people harassing someone or continuing to write to someone after they have been asked not to write.

 

There's your answer. He more than likely was playing you. If he was really was royality, he would understand the circumstances of trust online - He would make other efforts to show you who he really was...But, he didn't and he bailed out.

 

Don't believe 100% of what a stranger tells you online...It takes time to get to know someone and even then, if a friendship is just online, you really don't "know" that person that well. You only know what they show you in words and in their actions..Even then, until you talk on the phone and meet face to face, you don't know....

[rina_r]

I dated a guy who said he was chosen by God to be a messenger, but for some reason he never went to church or read Bible...uhum, dropped him pretty soon...

[riobikini]

During my rather disappointing experiences with internet dating sites, I received countless email from 'religious' men who -though they confessed to not having been born with silver spoons in their mouths- were gifted with an especially silver tongue.

 

It was always obvious.

 

One stated that he was a minister over a prominent regional church with a very large following, and that he was looking for a 'godly' woman, -one who could enjoy watching porn with him and was great at giving head.

 

I'm sure he could deliver just as eloquent a sunday sermon, as well.

 

Warning: Ladies in the church, beware where you bow your heads to pray.

 

-Rio

[Quinch]

He sounds like a total barking-at-the-moon loony with **** where his brains should be, a penchant for wearing womens underwear and an innate inability to comprehend the modern world. So yes, I would say he is genuine royalty