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Joseph Gregory Hallett

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Joseph Gregory Hallett aka King John III, The Hidden King and Mashiach-Christ-Messiah (14 September 1961–) is a New Zealand pseudo-journalist and conspiracy theorist who, after self-publishing a series of books elaborating complex historical and anti-communist conspiracy theories, made the shocking discovery that the current British Royal lineage was illegitimate and that he himself was the rightful King of England.[1] His subsequent attempts to assert this claim in a series of pseudo-legal documents have won him some support among the QAnon and sovereign citizen movements and nowhere else. The majority of his claims are to be found on his website:

kingjohnthethird.uk records Predictive Programming forming an interrelating pattern beyond manufacture, which hints at a history to be unveiled. It clearly states some Royal Families are fake, others more true, and others destined.[2]

This should give you some idea of what to expect and the difficulty of coherently summarising his gibberish here.

A peek behind the Iron Curtain[edit]

Hallett's early life, as detailed in his self-penned Amazon bio,[3] is as follows:

Trained in various psychological models in parallel with his architecture degree and training. He travelled widely behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, hitchhiking on planes, making bunks out of airmail bags, to party and report between cities. His contacts in Eastern Europe led to deep penetration of the Soviet State, how it functioned and how it was to colonise the West.

This unique background gave him access to insider knowledge:

It was these qualifications that led him to buy buildings in Moscow immediately after the Berlin Wall fell. This led to interviews with the KGB and their revelations about the planned sex-communism and deconstruction of Westerners. What they had planned for the West happened in the West. Equally all modern history can be dated back to 1945. What Adolf Hitler planned for the world happened to the world over the next sixty years.

What he learned formed the basis of a series of self-published books detailing elaborate pseudo-historical and anti-communist conspiracy theories.

Hitler was a British agent[edit]

Sounds legit, right?

The most popular of his self-published conspiracy theory books is his 2006 masterpiece Hitler Was a British Agent, which he co-wrote with The Spymaster:

I interviewed the KGB in Moscow in December 1989 at a point when they were open, due to lack of pay. At the time you could buy information for the price of a meal. This led to some psychological information being supplied which led to international contacts and meeting with a Spymaster. The Spymaster and other intelligence operatives have been briefing me for the past three years resulting in ten books. This is book five of ten (and just to confuse you) there are four books in this immediate series. — Greg Hallett[4]

As this introduction suggests, Hallett's book is an incoherent stream of consciousness covering such topics as Hitler's parentage, his homosexuality, his fetishes, his psychiatric condition, and many other entirely unsourced claims. It reveals Rudolf Hess's doppelgänger; Martin Bormann's removal from Berlin in Operation James Bond, exposing the "real" James Bond to have been, "a lot younger and more homicidal than anyone had previously thought," (not to mention a lot realer, apparently);[note 1] and Hitler's rescue from Berlin in Operation Winnie the Pooh, interviewing James Bond III on the attempted assassination of Hitler well after his reported suicide in Berlin. He also outs the British Royal Family as spies, perverts, and morons, detailing Wallis Simpson's sexual practises with Edward VIII and leaking British secrets to Hitler, and Anthony Blunt's royal parentage. Before finally coming to the extraordinary conclusion that Hitler, along with Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Zedong, manipulated by something called deconstruction, were British agents acting, of course, for the Rothschild family.[4][5]

The man who would be king[edit]

Looks legit, right?

Hallett claims that the Rothschilds (them again) purchased "breeding rights" to the Royal family as part of a series of dodgy deals around the funding of the Napoleonic Wars and that every British monarch since 1840 is as a result a "flat lie royal":[1][2][5]

Hallett's claim to the throne comes through Anne Boleyn, whom he asserts survived her execution and sired a Royal Holy Grail lineage, including Walter Raleigh, Samuel Bellamy, and, of course, Hallett himself. He even claims to have had this confirmed by a visit from Queen Elizabeth's personal physician.

Pandemic proclamations[edit]

See the main article on this topic: COVID-19 pandemic

Coming to prominence during the pandemic, Hallett has made the obligatory criticisms of the track and trace app, claims vaccines do "absolutely nothing" apart from kill people, and accusations that Bill Gates is the "biggest international criminal in the world". He's also denounced George Soros for orchestrating the Black Lives Matter protests.[1] This won him allegiance from exactly the sort of potential groups that one would expect.

Initial support for Hallett's claims came from sovereign citizen Darral Pinch who had his "Common Law Court" validate King John III's pseudo-legal documents, before seeing the error of his ways just in time to attend the coronation of unemployed security guard Gareth Barrett who proclaimed himself to be King Arthur.[6]

Hallett's claims were also embraced by large portions of the QAnon movement, including, according to Hallett anyway, Donald Trump himself. Some, however, were more skeptical and used their QAnon-honed pseudo-critical thinking skills to link him to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, the Nazis and Satan (in that order), and suggest he may in fact be the First Horseman of the Apocalypse.[1]

Notes[edit]

  1. Bormann committed suicide in 1945 while trying to flee Germany. James Bond did not exist as a literary character until Ian Fleming's book Casino Royale was published in 1953.

References[edit]

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 QAnon's latest wild conspiracy theory claims Queen has no right to the throne by Michael Moran (October 15, 2020) Daily Star
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Joseph Gregory Hallett: King John III
  3. Greg Hallett Amazon.com.
  4. Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 Hitler Was a British Agent Amazon.com.
  5. Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 What Happened to Joseph Gregory Hallett? by Jack Freestone (August 5, 2022) Daily Telegraph New Zealand (archived: March 29, 2024)
  6. Putting the UK on notice: How US legal fiction inspired aggressive action from UK anti-vaxxers by Katherine Denkinson (October 31, 2021) The Citizens