Posh Related to Marx Comrade

Revolutionary who fled to England is Victoria Beckham's great-great-great-grandfather
Posted Aug 6, 2008 11:49 AM CDT
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. (More Victoria Beckham stories.)

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