Why is royalty said to have blue blood?

Question

Why is royalty said to have blue blood?

Answer 1

Because they cannot be seen to have the same red communist blood as the peasants.

Answer 2

Because .......Because I don't know really i think its because blue is ment be pure or somin crud like that!

     Please put me as best answer

Answer 3

Because they are all blood drinking shapeshifting lizards who exist as parasites.

With blue blood,.

Answer 4

Blue blood is an English idiom recorded since 1834 for noble birth or descent; it is a translation of the Spanish phrase sangre azul, which described the Spanish royal family and other high nobility who claimed to be of Visigothic descent, while their subjects were largely of mixed descent (Iberian, Celtic, and Roman). There is no connection between the phrase and the actual blood color of nobility; however, in the ancient and medieval societies of Europe, much of the upper class may have had superficial veins that appeared blue through their untanned skin, in contrast with the working class of the time, mainly agricultural peasants. An alternative traditional explanation, argyria (a disease causing a blue-grey skin tone after digestion of silver), is considered less valid, as table silverware was not yet regularly used by much of the nobility.

Robert Lacey explains the genesis of the blue blood concept:

    It was the Spaniards who gave the world the notion that an aristocrat's blood is not red but blue. The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in classic military fashion, occupying land as warriors on horseback. They were to continue the process for more than five hundred years, clawing back sections of the peninsula from its Moorish occupiers, and a nobleman demonstrated his pedigree by holding up his sword arm to display the filigree of blue-blooded veins beneath his pale skin—proof that his birth had not been contaminated by the dark-skinned enemy. (Robert Lacey, Aristocrats. Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 67)

Answer 5

They stand out of the crowd cause they're royalty. What's with the blue blood when they're only humans just like all of us here?

Answer 6

Goddess is spot on.

Answer 7

It Is Meant Represent Nobel Birth

Answer 8

I think we should open them all and find out

Answer 9

Silly question, they are not said to have blue blood, they do have blue blood.

Ignore the paste and copy from Wikipaedia. It was my contribution, I wrote it and made it all up just for a laugh. I wish people understood that Wiki is not an encylopaedia. It was contributions made by anybody. When I was in Aussie a radio station had a campaign to get lots of people to make up junk and post it on Wiki. And we did.

Answer 10

We all have blue blood, it is only red when it meets the air.

Answer 11

Ooh, it goes back to King Kong  

Answer 12

they all must be Evertonians...