Is it true that the royals of England and Europe are the original hillbillies ?

Question

They in breed with in there own blood lines . They have nothing to do with any one else . They believe they are better then any one else .

Answer 1

I read some where that all English people are at the most 10th cousins so I don't think that marrying your 4th cousin is that bad.

Although I think marrying close relations was very popular for a few generation about 500 years ago.

And who is to say that any of the women were only sleeping with their husbands ???

Answer 2

they came to this country because they where going to be killed as they are original came from Germany. they aren't relay our royals how can they when they fled there own country all them years ago when queen Elisabeth was a young child. if they did not flee they would never of being our royal family. so makes me think ho would have being

Answer 3

Royalty tended to marry other royalty in order to form political alliances.  This invariably led to a certain amount of inbreeding.

However, members of the royal family nowadays are quite likely to marry commoners, as all of the present Queen of england's children have done.

And our royal family did not 'flee' here from anywhere else, as a comment above suggests.  Queen elizabeth I was born in england, as was every english monarch before her going back to King George III.

Answer 4

Yes, that's true.

Recently one of the royals married a Canadian girl.  It's weird.  She's all dressed up like no Canadian girl ever dresses.  What a dumb-***.

She's probably so egocentric it's not funny.

I guess that was a long-shot though, as normally that prince or whoever it was would have married his cousin.

I'd like to see one of them marry a black.

Japan is just as bad.  Their monarchy hides away and they all go mental.

I forget who it was, but one of the famous queens had 6 fingers on her hands due to the inbreeding.  Maybe Elizabeth I.

Answer 5

do you  have proof of this at all?

Answer 6

Do I detect a note of inverted snobbery?

The late mother of Queen Elizabeth II of England was no relation to her  father.  She was Scots a distant descendant of the medieval King Macbeth, he was of German and Danish (?) ancestry.  She was100 years old when she died, and was active in public events during her 90s which does not indicate inbreeding to me.  The present Queen is over 80 and is still in good health, which also does not indicate inbreeding.  It is true that the Duke of Edinburgh is a distant cousin, about third I think.  

There has only been one significantly inbred royal house of Europe in the past several hundred years and that was the one of Spain.  That had to do with a very narrow range of Spanish nobility from which the Spanish royals were allowed to choose partners. This nobility had intermarried for generations.  That inbreeding came to an end late in the 1700s.    

In reality the royal families of Europe and the nobility were probably less inbred than their working class subjects.  The royalty and nobility had the resources to choose marriage partners from the other side of the country or from another country altogether.

But villagers could not do this,  They ended up marrying someone from within walking distance of their homes, which meant that they were frequently marrying third and fourth cousins and sometimes people much more closely related.  That went on until the railways and the bicycle allowed young men to court girls they were not even related to.  

During the late 1930s there was a noted socialite and politician in London called "Chips" Channon.  He was American born, very wealthy, g*y, very clever and had a gold dinner service.  Someone asked the present Queen's mother if she had seen it. She replied that she and her husband, the King,  were not nearly grand enough to be invited there.

The woman with 6 fingers was Anne Boelyn,  no relation to Henry VIII who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I.  Henry VIII was eventually succeeded by Elizabeth, who never married and had no children.  (Hard to inbreed there).

The Stewarts of Scotland took over the throne of England, but were finally chucked out in 1688 for William of Orange, of Holland. His wife died suddenly, the Orange house was then replaced by the Elector of Hanover, who was a German prince married to one of the ladies of the Stewart house.  

There  can be no blood connection between Anne B. and the present Queen.

At present, the Queen of Denmark is married to a French man who is not even of aristocratic ancestry,  her son and heir married an Australian woman he met at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

Your thesis has a lot of holes.

Answer 7

They no longer purposely breed within their own blood lines, they marry for love.

Answer 8

Those of England, yes spot on. The others such as Monaco, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway who incidentally keep out of the limelight, less so.

Answer 9

Shades of Jerry Lee Lewis--give both the Royals and the American South a break!  I've traced back my own ancestry and to my shock found that one of my great-great maternal grandmothers was the daughter of two first cousins.  In this case, the family lived in Alabama, but the point about people in small villages marrying each other is a good one:  Until the advent of public transportation and the industrial age, a man in a farming community who was looking for a wife could reasonably only court prospective partners within a short distant from where he lived, say an hour's walk or courting buggy's ride away from home.  In my great-great grandmother's case, genealogy evidence also indicates that the same kinship group had emigrated across the Atlantic and then across the country together (from Argyll, Scotland, to North Carolina, to Alabama, and eventually to Texas).  At any rate, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin--neither of them slouches in the IQ department---ended up marrying a first cousin.  

I'd also suggest that many of us might have married distant cousins without knowing it.  Upon researching my family tree, I discovered that I had once had a blind date with a distant cousin (this time on my paternal grandmother's side).  While no romance ensued, all my  friends were very enthusiastic, noting how well we looked together.  Small wonder!  The difference with the Royals marrying distant cousins  and everybody else is that they would undoubtedly know that they were related.

Answer 10

100 percent Ken E.  and to Salt Rooms i can say that the brother of a friend of mine who happens to be an Earl is married to a very beautiful black lady.