Posh Related to Marx Comrade

Revolutionary who fled to England is Victoria Beckham's great-great-great-grandfather

By Elizabeth Wolff

Posted Aug 6, 2008 11:49 AM CDT

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Posh Related to Marx Comrade — German revolutionary and artist Carl Heinrich Pfaender, a comrade of Karl Marx, is the great-great-great-grandfather of singer Victoria Beckham. (AP Photo)

Victoria Beckham’s girl-power roots go a lot further back than her Spice Girls days: The pop icon is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a 19th-century communist who worked with Karl Marx, Reuters reports. A German historian discovered the link between Posh and revolutionary Carl Heinrich Pfaender who was chummy with Marx and fled to England after the failed revolution of 1848.

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