Do I have any claim to titles or property if I trace my ancestry back to royalty, such as Mary Queen of Scots?

Question

thanks for the answers. very interesting! and Stuart is the name of my European ancestors, you're good!

Answer 1

No,you have to be in direct line of ancestry and succession to have any claims.The rules of primogeniture state that the eldest son inherits;if you are not of the eldest son's branch,you are out of any entitlement claims.

Answer 2

No, many have tried before  you and have not been successful.

best of luck to you!

Answer 3

Sorry No!

The Queen has more right to them than me or you because she is the most direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. That's why she is the Queen.

Forget the land and titles you think you may have inherited and worry about the diseases instead! Including hemophilia which was passed on by Queen Victoria via her daughter to the Russian Tzar's. It  directly caused the Russian revolution!

The 'madness' of King George III was caused by a rare disorder called porphyria which came directly from Mary Queen of Scots! Shes a bad choice as an ansestor!

Mary Queen of Scots was a bad choice to inherit anything from too because she was forced to abdicate by the Scottish People after she was implicated in the murder of her husband and then married her co-murderer within weeks. She fled to 'safety' in England. (without much luck obviously!) Her infant son was made king of Scotland. As a traitor she  forfeited her right to own property and titles.

I would try the lottery if I was you!

Answer 4

People claiming descent from royalty, real or imaginary, making them feel good are sad.

Answer 5

I don't think so, can you imagine what the back taxes would be?

Answer 6

No, since illegitimate offspring born out of wedlock are not recognized in the eyes of Church of England. Mary Queen of Scot only had one legitimate son and he became King James I and VI of England and Scotland. If you can trace your family lineage back to Queen Mary of Scots, it means you have "Stuart Ancestry" possibly through an illegitimate son or a Catholic relative that was sent in exile. The last monarch to rule from The House of Stuart was Queen Anne, while her half brother James Francis Edward Stuart, within six months of his birth, his mother Mary of Modena on 10 December left London and took the child to France for safety where he was brought up.

The House of Stuart alternatively spelled Stewart, was a royal house of England, although it was first a royal house of Scotland. The House of Stuart later went on to become a member of Great Britain. The origins of the name Stuart can be traced back to a hereditary Scottish title from ancient times, the High Steward of Scotland. An interesting piece of information regarding the Stuarts is that while Mary Queen of Scots was in France, she took on the French spelling Stuart to make sure the name Stewart was pronounced correctly.

The House of Stuart was the designated ruling house of The Kingdom of Scotland for approximately 336 years, from 1371 to 1707. After Queen Elizabeth I of England (who was the last reigning monarch of the House of Tudor) died, the House of Stuart went on to rule the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland. Between the years 1603 and 1707 then, the three kingdoms (Scotland, England and Ireland) were ruled by members of the House of Stuart under a personal union between the three heads of state.

It was at this time that the House of Stuart dubbed themselves the Kings/Queens of Great Britain, although no such political entity actually existed. In fact, it wasn't until the last monarch of The House of Stuart, Queen Anne, that the Kingdom of Great Britain was politically united under a common monarch. Queen Anne was previously the reigning monarch of the separate kingdoms of Scotland and England and she ruled the newly established Kingdom of Great Britain until her death in 1714.

After the rule of The House of Stuart, Great Britain came under the rule of the House of Hanover. Currently the original Stuart clan is still in existence as well as several cadet and illegitimate branches of the family. Both the late Diana, Princess of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are both direct descendants from the "House of Stuart" from King Charles II of England through four illegitimate sons:

- Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton, son by Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

- Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox, son by Louise de Kérouaille, 1st Duchess of Portsmouth

- Charles Beauclerk, son by Nell Gwyn

- James Crofts- Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, leader of a famous rebellion, son by Lucy Walter

Answer 7

stuart is a fairly common surname so don't get your hopes up

Answer 8

No.  The fact is most people can trace their line back to nobility or royalty if they look far enough...along with piles and piles of run-of-the-mill ancestors.  One ancestor even a few centuries back can have thousands upon thousands of descendants.