A Britisher told me that Queen Elizabeth had the least British blood.Is he correct in his assumption?

Question

This is only a matter of enquiry and not with the intention of degrading any royalty.

Answer 1

Royalty tends to intermarry with other royalty a good deal, so British monarch tend to have intermarried a good deal with foreign royalty.  This is normal for royalty.  I could not say whether Queen Elizabeth has more or less British blood than any other British monarch.  Nor can I see that it matters.  She was born in Britain, raised in Britain, has lived her entire life in Britain, and I cannot see how that makes her anything other than British.

Answer 2

Britisher ! Oh you Americaners. LOL.  

A British person, my dear.

The British monarchy has blood lines that can be traced all over Europe, with much thanks in part to Queen Victoria.

Answer 3

The Queen was born in England and was brought up in England, her mother was 100% British, her father was also born and brought up in England.

I'm third generation on all sides, none of my great-grandparents were born here but all my grandparents were, does that make me Polish/Russian or British?

Answer 4

Queen Elizabeth II is of German descent, as a great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who was almost entirely German, and she married her first cousin Prince Albert, a German Prince. When her son came onto the throne as Edward VII of the United Kingdom, his Queen Consort was Alexandra of Denmark, a Danish princess. When his son succeeded him as George V of the United Kingdom, his Queen Consort was Mary of Teck, a German princess. Elizabeth II's own mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was actually the first person to marry into the royal family with "pure" English-Scottish blood into the House of Windsor. Queen Elizabeth married her twice-removed German cousin, Prince Philip, which made their children, technically a German again.

Note: Queen Elizabeth does have English-Scottish-German blood, however, if you look through her ancestral line, you'll see that her German heritage takes up more than half of her English-Scottish heritage. The last English monarch was Queen Anne who died in 1714, and since she died with no issue, she passed the crown to her distant protestant cousin, who was a German prince. Since then, England, Scotland and Ireland were ruled by foreigners (their claim to the British throne was that they were a descendant of James I through a daughter. The true heir to the throne was sent in exile because he was a Catholic, and his descendants who survived til this day has a better claim to the crown than the Queen herself.

Answer 5

That to me is just a myth. Because if this woman did not have british blood she couldn't be monarch. So that my friend is just one of those myths that the tabloids just like to make up to destroy someone's image. The woman is british. Although I am no fan of her's. She seems to be very british to me. You should go online and look for her family tree. And that will tell you a lot more, than what anyone else here can tell you. Look online for The British Royal Family's Family Tree.

Answer 6

The British Royal family are derived from Germans and some other foreign phenotypes to my knowledge. Their bloodline is also preserved, or as preserved as they can keep it. I'm lead to believe everyone who walks down the red carpet is implicated in the british royal monarchy somehow.

Answer 7

No, he is not correct. If you consider Queen Elizabeth II's mother, who was essentially 100% British "by blood" for several generations, that makes Queen Elizabeth II at least 50% British "by blood".

Compare Queen Victoria: 15 of her 16 great-great-grandparents were German and held German titles. The one whose primary title was British was George II, who was born Duke George Louis of Brunswick-Lunenburg, a German. Queen Victoria's near ancestry was 100% German and "less British" than Queen Elizabeth II's.

That one example disproves the theory that Elizabeth II is the least British of the kings and queens of the UK and its predecessor realms. The Queen, however, by definition is British. Consider also that all of Elizabeth II's grandparents and six of her eight great-grandparents were born in the UK.

Editing to comment on Rachelle's following answer: Kings and queens of the UK born and naturalised in the UK are not foreigners, regardless of where their blood comes from. Succession to the British throne is legislated by parliament and the UK is a consitutional monarchy, therefore only a Jacobite can say that the true heir is Francis, Duke of Bavaria, to whom I imagine Rachelle is referring.

The answer to the question though is still no, Elizabeth II does not have the least British blood of all of her predecessors.

Answer 8

least British blood compared to what?  She is in the House of Hanover i.e. German Royalty but so what? All European Monarchs are "mutts" like that.

Answer 9

The least british blood of what?

She has some German descent, but she is British, as she was born in Britain, and, for that matter, her mother was pretty pure British, which makes her, around half German, and that, only her father's side.

I think, if you are looking at all the British Royals, there have been quite a few who were not British at all:  William of Orange, George I, Victoria came from the Georges, all basically German, and Albert was German, making their first generation of offspring pretty much German blood, but if you go back, you find so many queens brought in from other countries that it's hard to keep track.

Charles I (a Scot, in any case) was married to a French princess, Henry VIII married a Spanish princess, and later a German one.  And it goes on and on...

Oh, and somebody PLEASE tell me why they assume the asker is American?  I don't think that necessarily makes him american...not so bright, but not American.