>You mention Henry VIII's land grab, given over to his supporters, taken from the Catholic Church land and the land of Catholic families. Has anyone traced the beneficiary families down to the present to see how they fit into the current elite?
That's the million-dollar question, and to my knowledge no one has. It would take a hell of a lot of research for a tome which would be likely to attract no interest from a publisher, but lots of interest from the intelligence services. It's not impossible to research however, not least because Cobbett published a follow-up volume called "List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals and other Religious Foundations in England and Wales and in Ireland, Confiscated, Seized on, Or Alienated, by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments", which details to the pound the sums of the buildings taken by the elites, though he says himself the totality of the lands is impossible to calculate, with it being up to a third of the total land mass of the country. The book is available on archive.org and google books, and comes with an introduction of his which is typically BASED, and which rings particularly relevant for us today, because it discusses the beginnings of the talk of Malthusian "population control", which commenced when the population was thrown off the land, and the elites decided that a cull of population was required (and from the 16th century onwards they began to talk of "natural law" in "survival of the fittest" or "might makes right" terms which long predated Darwin - and Cobbett discusses this elite mindset here in this book, in 1829). Equally relevant for our current year, he also talks about how disenfranchising the masses of their birthright by means of seizing all economic power would mean that the elites' subsequent political power would be diminished - that is to say - that peasants who had had everything stolen from them would have no stake in defending the land or fighting for the current order, and indeed, that is what we see today, with the rulers very aware that the native peoples of Britain and Europe (and the Anglo diaspora) have been denuded of any will to fight for the regimes of their respective countries, given that the regimes in question have done nothing but openly demonstrate their contempt for them for well over a lifetime.
All of that said, one aristocratic family which did stick out for me was the bloodline which began with Lord John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, who was a huge beneficiary of the dissolution of the monasteries. This guy was mentioned in Cobbett's History for bringing in German troops to quell the native uprisings against the land grab, and his descendants continued to persecute Catholics in Britain through the ages, because this family understood the existential risk that a restoration of Catholicism would bring to their status and fortune - which had been made on the back of the destruction of the Church and the stealing of the land and property. They were politically Whigs - those who supported the setting up of the Bank of England (the debt-based system), and Lord John Russell, the 19th century foreign secretary, was instrumental in trying to set up liberal regimes - and diminishing Catholic political power (which would oppose the money-system) - in countries around the world where the UK could use debt as a means of control e.g. Mexico. Then there's Lord Bertrand Russell, the famous NWO insider of the 20th century, globalist and exponent of scientism, who wrote many books including "Why I am not a Christian", and others of a very shady variety which outline plans similar to those of Huxley and Gates for controlling and culling the peasants. He was also a key player in the Tavistock Institute. Jay Dyer had reviewed his books extensively, but in none of the episodes I've seen of his, has he linked back Russell's family origins to the land-grab of the Reformation, which would give the original reasoning for so much of his family's hostility to Christianity and tradition, and to the common people. Garfisch will probably be able to tell you more about the origins of the name Russell, which is likely Rousel, of French origin, and it may have been that the Russells were of Sephardic Jewish blood originally (but I don't know this for certain).
What I would say with more certainty is that as time went on, the land stolen from the church fell more and more into Jewish hands by the 19th century, either by means of mortgage debt or bankruptcy, or by marriage, as more and more wealthy Jews married into the aristocracy, thus marrying money with status. As a result many British aristos may not look or profess to be Jewish, but they do in fact possess Jewish blood to a greater or lesser degree, and have the instincts that align with this configuration (a defence tactic that the Jews similarly employed in medieval Spain, in order to make sure that when there was a threat of peasant violence against the Jews, the aristos would be find the Jews' problem was now their own). I know that Andrew Joyce has done work on this over at the Occidental Observer.
>The British Royal family is a puzzle to me. They have an absurdly high profile in the media and public life in general. Partly it can be accounted for by people scrambling for honors, sirs, lords, etc. But they have all sorts of connections. Prince Charles and Prince Philip attended a few Bilderberg meetings.
As for the royal family, I don't know that much about them, except for the fact that their true power is difficult to ascertain. Certainly, if their position were truly attractive, the most eligible blue-blooded noblewomen of Europe would have been queuing up to marry the princes... and as it was, we saw a sharp-elbowed middle-class Sloanie crypto-Jew (mother is Goldsmith) get the top spot, and a literal triple-roasted mulatto hooker get the younger brother. That would suggest to me that the real powerbrokers in Europe understand that for what is coming, it is better not to be in the limelight, lest you end up like the Romanovs, but better to be someone unknown to the peasant masses, who can slip away unscathed in times of unrest. Perhaps unwittingly, Lady Colin Campbell said something very pertinent, when she pointed out that "just call me Harry" and his flirtations with marxist demagoguery with his wife, is very similar to the Duc D'OrlΓ©ans' machinations during the French Revolution, when, like Harry, he denigrated the monarch, and called himself "Philippe EgalitΓ©" in a bid to make himself popular with the peasants, in the hope that, were they to topple the King, they would install him, "Philippe", in his place. As it was, the Revolution saw Philippe beheaded alongside his cousin. Seeing Harry's antics makes one wonder if the royal elites don't smell the coming blood in the air, and some are trying to position themselves to try to ride the tiger. I believe that the royal family themselves understand that they sit atop dark powers as convenient figureheads, to give the natives a sense of security and continuity, but that they could be easily replaced - I'm sure it was David Icke who talked about a newspaper report of Camilla Parker-Bowles having her car spin out of control and hitting a tree, and saying that when she got out of the car, she just "ran and ran" (the implication being that she assumed that her car had been tampered with, and that she feared she was the target of a hit). I would imagine that, like Diana being bugged, she would be correct to be paranoid.
Hope my ramblings help to answer your questions LOL.