Is it possible that my great great great grandma was related to royalty in England?

Question

She said we were, and its passed down in my family to me...but we dont know if its true...? is it possible?

Answer 1

Sure. At one time the King went around having His way with any woman He cared to so not only is it possible it's likely. Unless your Irish, the you're probably related to Cromwell.

Answer 2

I'm descended from prominent Vikings and Norwegian royalty (my grandmother did the genealogy)...so I'd say yes, absolutely possible.

Answer 3

could be possible, do some more search

Answer 4

Well one thing is for certain, if you did not inherit any royal titles from your great-great-great grand-mama, you're not royalty and like the rest of us, you are a commoner. In British law, a commoner is someone who is neither the Sovereign nor a peer. Therefore, any member of the Royal Family who is not a peer, such as HRH Prince William of Wales or HRH The Princess Royal, is a commoner, as is any member of a peer's family, including someone who holds only a courtesy title.

In order to be a "royalty member" you must inherit an English peerage title by right, not through marriage and these titles include:

Duchess

Marchioness

Countess

Viscountess

Baroness

In other words, you must have a substantial title, which is a title of nobility or royalty held by someone (normally by one person alone), which they gained through either grant or inheritance, as opposed to one given or loaned to them either as a courtesy title, or gained through marriage.

Answer 5

yeah, it's possible. I found out last year that my 37th great was a scottish king.

Answer 6

Rachelle, are you on glue? Being a British peer has little to do with royalty. Peers are nobles, royals are the the issue of kings and queens. Get it right! And stop pretending that there isn't a world outside of the United Kingdom. And it's not a "substantial" title, it's a substantive title.

Answer 7

Very possible, all though dont expect people to belive it... When I tell people the origions of my family name and our origions in spanish royalty, I tend to get all kinds of reall bad responces... But because of our bloodlines I can also trace lineage through both the French and English monarcys.. Heck!! My first "American" ancestor was a loyal freind and reliative of  Lord Baltimore (Albeit a distant relative)  and was sent here to help colinize Maryland...

Answer 8

Camilla, the Prince of Wales' former mistress and the current Duchess of Cornwall, first attracted Prince Charles' attention by reminding him that her great grandmother, Alice Keppel, was Edward VII's mistress.  Additionally, both she and Lady Diana Spencer were both descendants of Charles II's mistresses, Charles Stuart acknowledging 12 illegitimate children by half a dozen mistresses.  Indeed, English kings who didn't take mistresses were very few and far between.

For every proven royal b*****d, there were probably many unacknowledged ones. Plus, after a few generations of marrying down, the younger daughters of kings' descendants passed out of the aristocracy into the general population.  Sure, since England has had kings since long before 1066, and the Scottish Stuarts (or Stewarts before Mary Queen of Scots) have similarly produced illegitimate children, odds are you (and a large percentage of the British population as well as many Americans of English or Scottish descent) may be descended from royalty.  

Sign up at Ancestry.com--or run for the US Presidency (or for Prime Minister)--and discover if your grandmother was right.   I've discovered that I'm a distant cousin of Elizabeth II through Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and am in addition a descendant of James II of Scotland--not that anybody hundreds of years later knew.  

Even better, I'm related to Elvis--not to mention Bill Clinton, George Bush, Al Gore, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Teddy Roosevelt, . . . at least according to Ancestry.com.  Of course, it would take me ten lifetimes to verify all these relationships.

Answer 9

I have a sketch of her serving grog

Answer 10

The ONLY way that you can absolutely know IF you are related to Royalty IF you do documented genealogical research.