AJ Langer Gives Birth to Future Lord

By PopEater Staff Posted Aug 28th 2009 11:58AM

'My So-Called Life' actress AJ Langer gave birth to a son last week, and he is already destined for greatness. You see, Jack Haydon Langer Courtenay's father is the future Earl of Devon in England -- royalty. His birth makes him second in line to the English title "Lord Devon."

PEOPLE reports that little Jack was born Aug. 16 to Langer and Charlie Courtenay, whose ancestry links him to Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's oldest daughter.

Langer, 35, and Courtenay tied the knot in 2004. They met in Las Vegas, but neither knew anything about the other. "We met in a bar in Vegas," Langer has said. "He didn't know I was an actress. I didn't know he had a castle."

The couple also has a daughter and they are prepping a move to the Powderham Castle in Devon, England. Langer is best known for playing angst-y Rayanne alongside Claire Danes in 'My So-Called Life.'

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Comments

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Friday 28 August

By meadow

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it was Henry VII. not VIII. ahem.

Saturday 29 August

By Shannon

Mary Tudor was Henry VIII's daughter, not his grand-niece. She was also known as "Bloody Mary" because she tried to return England to an all-Catholic country, and had non-Catholics routinely murdered.

By Rhi

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Henry VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor, did not have any children. Henry VII's daughter, Mary Tudor, did have children.

By Diane

No it was Henry the VIII - do you not know Mary was his daughter from his wife he divorced by becoming his own Church..

By J3NN1F3R

Oh PLEASE!!! Mary Tudor is Henry Tudor VIII'S GREAT GRAND NEICE!!!! mEANING that she was his sisters granddaughter! Gawd.....

By katie

srri but ur wrong henry the 8th was mary's father.she was from his first wife catherine of aragon henry the 7th was her grandfather who was an onli child, no sister.

By Jamie

Mary was the name of Henry VIII's sister and the name of his daughter by Catherine of Aragon. However, Mary the daughter had no children, so the line has to descend from Mary the sister.

By Dana

Well, yeah...Henry VIII had a sister named Mary Tudor, but he also had a daughter that he named Mary Tudor....by his first wife Catherine. I'm not sure which one this baby supposedly descended from, but Henry VIII did have an eldest daughter named Mary Tudor (AKA, Bloody Mary...half sister to Queen Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn). Not that any of that matters.

By George

Queen Mary had no children, when she died Elizebeth I became Queen and an Earl is not royalty. He is part of the nobility which is not the same thing. Didn't anyone study English history?

By mistermac

Her place in the pecking order of British Royalty is one position behind the night dustman at Windsor Castle.

By jamie

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Damn, why couldn't I meet a prince in a bar...and a real one with a castle...

By KatieCouric'sNemesis

He is NOT destined to be royalty. He, as Lord Devon, is part of the ARISTOCRACY. The only royals in England are those in the direct line of succession to the Queen. If truth be told, the members of the aristocracy have their origins in being born on the "wrong side of the blanket" to royals. But they are not royals.

By bamiller56

Who cares?

By "DUH"

This is all really pathetic news on here. Congratulations! But they are not the only people in the World having babies...and who cares about Jon & Kates' dirty laundry! And is anyone else tired of hearing about Michael Jackson? I guess this is what they call simple things for simple minds! I didn't even have to read any of it, all I had to do was look at the picture's, and now exactly what the pathetic news was about!

Good night!

By LINDA

the president had no reason in this world to be turning around his position on marijuana and the help it is.i thank god i lve in a state where we can be registered and obtain.i just keep my fingers crossed that he has no medical problems.or on the flip side of the coin,he might just be hiding behind the fact that he's smoked it and knows what it does,and that is help.i can eat,move around and have half of a life.

By epbrighttn

Thank you for writing. I couldn't agree with you more.

By Bev

Congratulations but I hope they know he is in line for nothing. This royalty foolishness makes me laugh. The monorchy are made up of sponges. Sponges that live off of the people that don't understand they are supporting this leaches. The monarchy means nothing and accomplishes nothing yet the English people continue supporting them. Unbelievable in this day and age people wouldn't wake up.

By Janice

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Funny, I found those castles in England to be ugly-I was so bored on a tour from Oxford U I thought I would SCREAM. Second in line to the title? I'd sell it. Castles are so cheap in England who would care? Henry IV is a brilliant commentary on the hopes of the ENglish that one day all the royals would be in body bags while the future king chased a French coquette. At least France has beauty and that is more than England could ever hope for. UGH.

By Leslie

There were two Mary Tudors. One was the daughter of Henry VII and younger sister to Henry VIII. She was married twice, once to the King of France, Louis XII (who died 82 days after their wedding). Her second husband was Charles Brandon, the Duke of Suffolk. They had 3 children, but their only son died when he was a teen. They were the grandparents of Lady Jane Grey, "the Nine Days' Queen." Henry VIII's oldest daughter, by Katherine of Aragon was also named Mary. She was married to King Philip of Spain and died without issue. So NO ONE is descended from Henry VIII's daughter Mary. From Henry VII's daughter Mary -- yes, that is possible.

And the kid in question has a father who is a member of the aristocracy, not the nobility. There are so many incorrect facts in this article that the author should be fired.