My family is directly related to Mary Queen of Scotts, does that mean we are of a Royal family.?

Question

My ancestor Lord Boyd, took care of one of the young kings until he was old enough to take the thrown. The Boyd Castle is Kilmarnok castle in Scottland, and I was just wondering if that puts us as Royalty??

Answer 1

I have french and british blue blood in me. but it doesnt mean i can say i am part of the british royal family. but i can say i am distantly related. like most kiwi's claim to be lol.

Answer 2

Lords and Ladies were/are aristocracy, but that does not mean they are royals.  Many aristocrats had/have their own castles.

The fact that Lord Boyd was guardian for a time over a young prince/king who eventually took the throne, doesn't mean Boyd was a royal.

What you need to do is look at his pedigree (also called "family tree") and find out where he is linked to royal blood, if at all.  Even with a royal on the family tree, it does not necessarily make him royal.  And even if Boyd was a royal, you are most likely far too removed to be considered royal.  If you *were* a royal, you and your family would know it, live like it and be able to spell "throne" and "Scotland"   LOL (j/k)  ;)

Answer 3

statistically speaking over 90% of current British (of British blood) people are related through blood lines to the Royal family . I doubt you are any different to the rest of us .. I can trace my family tree (with a certain amount of accuracy) back to Roger, the Baron Le Coq, who came to the UK (England) in 1066 and he was part of the French royal family .. I don't think that give me any titles or right to claim part of the French estate (unfortunate this, since I love France)

Answer 4

if he looked after the king then he´s not relation, a nanny looks after children to doesnt mean shes related to them.

Answer 5

I would assume so

Answer 6

Thousands of normal people can be traced back to royalty but this doesnt mean that they are royal themselves.

Answer 7

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2019...

You and everyone else.

Answer 8

Sure, you should be put to death.

Answer 9

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 Camillia, Duchess of Cornwall are both direct descendants from the "House of Stuart" from King Charles II of England through four illegimate 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