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Allan V. Evans of Colorado, USA, believes he is no ordinary man.

He is so certain of the fact that he has taken out a large, two-column advert in today's Times newspaper to declare his claim to the throne of Wales.

He declares that in 30 days he is going to claim his historic Royal estate, all lands, assets and titles including the "Royal Title and Crown of Wales".

Mr Evans is, according to himself, a descendant of the first King of Wales.

His long and glorious lineage is set out in detail in his closely-printed advert.

He declares: "Allan V. Evans... is a direct descendant of an unbroken line of primogeniture line legally documented since the 3rd Century".

He believes his ancestor was Cunedda Wledig, who he describes as "the founder of the Kingdom of Wales, then known as the Kingdom of Gondor".

According to our research, Cunedda, also known as Cunedda ap Edern, is said to have been a powerful ruler from the north who, in the words of the dictionary of Welsh biography , "laid the foundation of the Gwynedd of the Middle Ages".

Gondor was part of JRR Tolkien's mythology in his epic the Lord of the Rings.

Mr Evans doesn't stop there.

He states: "[Cunedda] married the Princess of Powys, whose direct descendant was the Cilman Droed Ddu, being the founder of the 4th Royal Tribe of Wales who was the King of Wales and the King of the Isle of Man."

He then goes on to claim that his ancestors were also the forebears of the Royal houses of "Lloyd, Tudor and Stuart".

Mr Evans has even larger ambitions than the Welsh throne.

He believes "historical injustice" robbed his lineage of the "Throne and Sovereign Crown of Great Britain".

However, just to complicate matters, he is an admirer of The Queen.

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So is his proposing to delay claiming her throne until she dies.

He writes: "He will not out of the greatest and deepest respect depose her in life for the great service and selfless sacrifice that she and her husband HRH Prince Philip have rendered to this great nation".

Which is nice of him.

But Mr Evans isn't finished there.

He concludes with a rhetorical flourish declaring that his return to claim the crown is the fulfilment of Tolkien's writing in the Lord of the Rings.

He writes: "For the Legend was not a myth but was indeed true, and more than a mere Tolkien story, that the men of the West are now returning and now is the time of the return of the King."

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