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"Descent from antiquity" is a technical term that means that a specific linage to antiquity can be confirmed, typically via historical documents.

Virtually anyone with deep roots in england have landed gentry in their ancestry because statistically they survived long enough to have more progeny. So the base premise here is just wrong.

We're all descended from Adam, and Joseph of Aramathea.

Virtually EVERY person, from every country, is descended from royalty/aristocracy of some kind somehow. And obviously, literally every person is descended from people who lived in antiquity.

The unusual thing is having a traced relation with royalty or stretching back this far.

Well he is a "Prince". Of a non-existent Kingdom. So he cannot be wrong, can he?

Georgia is still around. He's just out of power.

Georgia is a Republic not a Kingdom.