Anne Bolyen? How is She related to the current queen of England???

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Anne Bolyen? How is She related to the current queen of England???

Answer 1

Not, really, at all.  She was the mother of Elizabeth I, who was of course childless, and was succeeded by the son of a distant cousin, James Stuart.

When the Stuarts were deposed, William of Orange succeeded, although his only link to the English throne was his wife, a Stuart cousin, and they were childless.

The Hanoverians, who followed, were also linked only distantly, by marriage, and Victoria,  Queenie's great great grandmother, was rather indirectly descended from the Hanoverian royals, too.

Answer 2

She is actually related to the current royal family, not so much the Queen as her grandsons William and Harry.

Anne's sister Mary Boleyn had two children, which were commonly accepted as Henry VIII's as well. If you saw the movie of The Other Boleyn Girl you got some of that story. Certainly Mary's son Henry Carey was the

image of the king - he, and his sister Katharine, both married into the English aristocracy and among their descendants is the Spencer family, Princess Diana's lot. The English aristocracy are all cousins of one sort or another.

  

Answer 3

Her Husband, King Henry VIII was Queen Elizabeth's 12th Great Grand Uncle so she was Queen Elizabeth's 12th Great Grand Aunt in Law! Ann is not a direct descendant to The Queen

Answer 4

she's not.

Answer 5

they are not related

Answer 6

Indirectly, through the Queen Mum's side of the family--Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, is a descendant of Mary Boleyn, Anne's sister.  Mary's daughter, Catherine Carey, was the mother of Lettice Knollys, the Countess of Essex and Leicester, who married Elizabeth I's favorite courtier, Robert Dudley.  From this line descends not only the Queen Mum, but also Lady Diana Spencer and Winston Churchill as well.  Come to think of it, Churchill looks a little like Henry VIII, and this also might solve the mystery of where Prince Harry got his red hair.

Since a high degree of probability exists that Mary Boleyn's children, Catherine and Henry Carey, were the illegitimate children of Henry VIII, and thus half-siblings to Elizabeth Tudor, the current Queen of England in all probability descends from Henry VII on both her father and mother's side. Although the Tudor line ended with  the death of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's sister, Margaret Tudor, married James IV of Scotland.  James VI of Scotland was Elizabeth's nearest legitimate relative and thus fell heir to the English throne. Among his descendants was Sophia, Electress of Hanover, who is the ancestor of every Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg Gotha, and Windsor monarch.  

The illegitimate lines of Henry VIII, however, appear to be much more prolific than his legitimate heirs--and not so inbred.