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July 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The documentary earned “King Mike I” a degree of celebrity in Jerilderie,
whose only claim to fame before then was that it had once been held up by
the Ned Kelly gang. When he went to a friend’s house for Christmas dinner,
as he recalled, “they all stood up and sang God Save the King as I walked
in”. There were rumours that a Hollywood producer was planning to make a
film based on his life, possibly starring Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger or
Eric Bana as the “country bloke” who “chases his destiny” all the way to
Buckingham Palace, though the Earl considered all three actors too thin for
the role.
But the Earl was in no hurry to enforce his rights. “I’ve no intention of
chasing over there and laying claim to palaces and crown jewels. I’m quite
happy in Jerilderie,” he told an inquisitive journalist, while relaxing with
a beer after a hard day’s work spraying herbicide from a tractor. “I believe
that Australia should be a republic,” he told Channel 4. “I’m not a mad
monarchist.”
But he had some sympathy with the Royal family, observing that being cooped up
in Buckingham Palace “would be a terrible way to live … They can’t even
pick their noses without someone writing about them.” In Jerilderie, by
contrast, “there’s no pressure, everybody knows everybody and the people are
friendly, so I don’t know what else I can say about it.”
He was, though, proud of his heritage as the Earl of Loudoun — a title in the
Peerage of Scotland — even though he never talked about his genealogy: “It
is bad enough being a Pom over here, let alone being a bloody titled one.”
Michael Abney-Hastings (Abney-Hastings is the Loudoun family name) was born on
July 22 1942 and grew up in a small house at Hastings, Sussex. The Earls of
Loudoun had once owned castles and sporting estates, but while the title
would eventually pass from his grandmother, the 12th Countess of Loudoun, to
his mother (Scottish titles can pass through the female line), it was his
aunt, Jean, who inherited the Loudoun estates in Scotland. His father was
Captain Walter Lord, who had married his mother in 1939, but the marriage
did not survive the war.
The earldom had been created by Charles I in 1633 for his ancestor John
Campbell ; however, the 1st Earl became a leading member of the Covenanter
movement which opposed attempts by the King and Archbishop Laud to impose a
new liturgy and prayer book on the Church of Scotland. The 4th Earl raised a
regiment of Highlanders to fight the Jacobites during the 1745 Rising and
later became an unpopular commander-in-chief of the British forces in North
America.
Despite his Protestant antecedents, Michael was brought up a Roman Catholic
and educated at Ampleforth. On the death of the 12th Countess in 1960, his
mother, Barbara, inherited the Loudoun titles, as well as the baronies of
Botreaux, Stanley and Hastings and moved to a small house in
Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire. Michael was given the courtesy title of
Lord Mauchline.
One day, after leaving school aged 18, Michael wandered into the Australian
High Commission in London: “They had a scheme called Big Brother. You had to
sign on for two years as a hired hand, but I reckoned it would take me two
years to see the country anyway. I signed,” he recalled.
He set sail with just £50 in his pocket and arrived in Australia as plain
Michael Hastings. For the next few years he jackarooed on ranches, tried a
bit of orange picking, sold encyclopedias door-to-door and worked for a
stocking station agency. Before long he had fallen in love with the country
and with a local girl, Noelene McCormick. They married in 1969 and moved to
Jerilderie, where he worked and farmed for Rice Research Australia, served
as a local councillor and as chairman of the local historical society and
became a life member of the Jerilderie Football Club. He inherited the
Loudoun title on the death of his mother in 2002.
When the Channel 4 team arrived at his door in 2004, the Earl was struggling
to recover from the death of his wife in 2002: “The documentary came at the
right time for me,” he recalled. “It gave me a bit of an interest in life
after my wife died of breast cancer after a five-year battle. That year was
my annus horribilis.” Yet he felt that his wife, a “fiery Australian with
red hair”, would not have been impressed: “She would have told me to bloody
well behave myself and not get carried away by all this.”
The 14th Earl, whose death was reported by the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser,
is survived by three daughters and two sons. His eldest son, Simon
Abney-Hastings, Lord Mauchline, born in 1974, inherits the Loudoun titles.
The 14th Earl of Loudoun, born July 22 1942, died June 30 2012
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