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Teddy’s Bastard Cousin

There is a thin line between loyalty and integrity. How far will a family go
to protect its own and right the sins of the past?

Granville Roland Fortescue – “Roly” – was Theodore Roosevelt’s cousin. Seventeen years younger than TR, Roly, as he was called by TR, was an important but unsung part of the President’s life. Why? Because Roly Fortescue was a bastard. He was the illegitimate son of TR’s Uncle Barnwell–part of Barnwell’s second, and very secret family.

Roly was a member of the Rough Riders. He was beside TR when they charged, side by side, up San Juan Hill. He was decorated by TR for his service, and earned a Purple Heart in the battle.

Over the next ten years Roly would serve in the White House as a military aide, boxing partner, and hunting companion for TR. Roosevelt would send him as an observer to Manchuria, an investigator of the Brownsville Incident, and as a military instructor in Cuba.