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Have you looked into your family tree to see if you are of royal blood?

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Have you looked into your family tree to see if you are of royal blood?

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  1. the last royal to whom I could relate has been dead for more than 2000 years, which makes the search in my family tree a little difficult.


  2. Unverified, of course, but on my paternal grandfather's side of the family (in the Crawford branch of the family tree), I was whizzing along through a sea of Scottish surnames on  Ancestry.com when I noticed the birthplace of one Mary Stewart as being Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland.  She was the daughter of James II of Scotland.   I nearly fell out of my chair.

    Closer in time, Ancestry.com also indicates that my paternal grandmother was the 8th cousin, twice removed, of Elizabeth II through the Queen Mum.  Again, I haven't taken the time to verify this information, attending to closer relations on the American side of the Atlantic.

    On my maternal grandmother's side of the family (again unverified), Ancestry.com indicates that I am a descendant of Lucy Walters and Charles II.  My Great Grandmother Macquarrie is probably turning over in her grave upon the announcement that she descends from an out-of-wedlock birth (no matter how royal).

    P. S. Given the Stuarts' habit of having their heads chopped off or else being killed in battle every other generation, I'm not sure that this descent from the kings of Scotland is necessarily an asset.   It took my family until World War I to be on the winning side of any war except for the Texas War for Independence.  I'm a distant cousin of Davy Crockett ("King of the Wild Frontier").  Where I come from, that's bragging!

    Question for Adam: How could anyone's ancestor be Anne Boleyn since her only live birth, Elizabeth Tudor, didn't bear any children?

  3. i haven't been able to trace that far back, i just don't have enough information on my ancestors, and on my fathers side i don't have any information because he left when i was 2and i don't know hardly anything about him or his side of the family. but knowing me....i'm probably from peasant blood not royalty.

  4. I have.  Although royal blood is claimed (relations to the Windsors of England), it cannot be documented.

    It is not that important to me.

    I am more proud of the various soldiers of the American Revolution (and other early conflicts) and the witch that was hanged in Connecticut or Rhode Island

  5. no only thing i found in my family tree were a few nuts.lol

  6. CONTEMPTIBLE.

    I'd far rathr be descended from some writer or scientist than those aristocratic tw@ts but even then it's rubbish.

    I'd rather know who my grandchild was, not my grandfather.

  7. no but according to my aunt we lived in a castle called "rose castle" in scotland... :) thot that was kind of cool. i don't think i would really care if i had royal blood...i would care about what we did. but not like "omg! i'm royalty obey me!" blah blah kinda thing. :) cheers and good question!

  8. I was told that we were related to Lafayette. He is from a noble house in France, but I don't know if he's related to royalty or not. I do know I have ancestors who were hung for horse-thieving, and that my grandpa left Québec because, as the third child, he couldn't inherit anything. So he ended up in Minnesota and met my grandma. The horse thief was on the other side of the family.

  9. yup... we are : )  My friend is actually something like 10th cousins with Prince William...

  10. Oh, and I have to say that I have no idea if that is true. My mother claims to have looked it up and found relatives who were ancestors of someone related to Anne Boleyn. Who knows? It doesn't matter to me either way. Sorry if I wasn't specific.

  11. Traced many generations back, and no royalty is present....!!

  12. Not really,but according to my father we are related to Robert the Bruce

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  13. No.

    I don't need blue blood to feel good.

    I like mine red and warm...

  14. Only lowely knights. No royalty as far as I know, which sadly isn't that far back.

  15. No, it's not necessary.  I'm Irish and all the Irish are descendants of Kings......at least that's what my dear grandpa told me!

    best of luck to you!

  16. William Shakespeare wote, "Every king has a drop of beggar's blood, and every beggar, a drop of king's"...

  17. Didn't have to look hard,  they're still at it being "aristocratic twats" as another answerer calls them. they were high in aristocracy since the middle ages and fought alongside kings (and some of the women did other things alongside kings)

    It's kind of fun to know about but i'm just as --or more--proud of the enslaved people who are my ancestors on the other side of my family.

  18. My family does have proven Regal & Aristocratic ancestry; it's well documented in Debretts peerage & Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage heraldy, also verified by the Napolean Bonaparte society in France,right up untill the mid 1900's - my great grandmother was a French Countess from the d'Anjou & Merovingian lineage & my Father is from the Plantagenet lineage; his family name is a very well know one in Europe and is of the peerage, when we came to New Zealand; we were known as the "Upper Gentry"

    In saying this - its preferable to be to just oneself instead of Royalty.

  19. Back to Bodica.  And after that, some royals.
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