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Title: Nobility
Post by: waralan on Friday 29 April 11 01:00 BST (UK)

Hi, with the upcomming marriage of William and Catherine a number of people, including myself, if we have any royal blood in our selves.
      I beliece that the standard used is Burkes law of land ownership.
      Is there any chance that I would be part royal.

Title: Re: Nobility
Post by: CaroleW on Friday 29 April 11 01:11 BST (UK)

Do you have any particular reason to suspect you may be?  Have you traced your ancestry sufficiently far back for it to be a possibility??

 

Title: Re: Nobility
Post by: waralan on Friday 29 April 11 02:46 BST (UK)

Carole W, I am a distance relative of the late Frederik 5 Norway/Denmark.  One of his wifes was the daughter of King George 2 of England.

Title: Re: Nobility
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 29 April 11 08:20 BST (UK)

These sites have royal and noble family trees, http://genealogy.euweb.cz/index.html
It is not uncommon for people of British ancestry to descend from some Royal or other. It has been said by some that all English descent from Edward I and all Scots from Malcolm III. Therefore there is no particular cachet in having any royal ancestors, but proving it is another matter entirely!
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/

Stan

Title: Re: Nobility
Post by: waralan on Friday 29 April 11 08:56 BST (UK)

Thanks, I guess I would have a bit of a trouble proving itl