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2 unusual facts about Morton Selten


Morton Selten

Given the name Morton Richard Stubbs at birth, and claimed as the son of Morton Stubbs, it was generally acknowledged that Selten was an illegitimate son of the then Prince of Wales (and future King Edward VII).

In 1889, Selten played Clarence Vane in Mrs. Hargrove’s Our Flat at the Lyceum Theatre and Captain Heartsease in Bronson Howard’s American Civil War epic, Shenandoah.


Fire Over England

Elizabeth's chief advisors are the lord treasurer, Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten), and her longtime admirer, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Leslie Banks).


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