When Prince George becomes the king of the UK, he would technically be the first British monarch to have more than 50% British ancestry in more than 300 years!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="145">2:25</a>- Why do I find it endearing and sweet that he was so devastated at Charlotte’s death that he never wanted to remarry and only did it when he became king of Belgium

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="92">01:32</a> Belgium <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="335">05:35</a> Denmark <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="671">11:11</a> Liechtenstein <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="962">16:02</a> Luxembourg <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1193">19:53</a> Monaco <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1533">25:33</a> Norway

I love my heritage! I went back 7 generations, and discovered that although we are german genetically, we have lived on the same farm in the Crimea since the 1600's, and saw pictures of family going back to the 1800's.

The most likely explanation to why they are so German is that there were a lot of German Monarchies so there were so much German in the royal marriage market

Mathilde is 50% polish, both of her grandparents were Poles

If you really want to place responsability to why the royal families of Europe have so much German, one of the tipping point comes from the British Act of Succession of 1704 requiring the British Monarch to be and still today, a protestant. German Royal Families excluding Baden and Bavaria were. And where a Protestant descendant of the Stuart line was in Hannover and there so many Protestant Royal Houses in Germany gave the Protestant houses of the rest of Europe a good place to look for royal bloodlines. I love that royal families with exceptions like the Act of Succession will allow royal families to marry who they love.

My mother died before she could tell me who my father was. One of the things i remembered was that he was some sort of secret elite. I got a Y-DNA test with Familytreedna and got the shock of my life. I discovered that I have an extremely rare! Y Haplogroup that originated from the first Canaanites and later became Phoenician and is located in the Iberian Y-DNA Tree in Southern France where they settled to escape the Jews and Romans. I am the 13th Merovingian bloodline of the Holy Grail of the 13th of the elite 13 families. I am a direct Y of the High Stewards and also have family in Quebec, Canada. My Father is mostly Scottish/Scandinavian and possibly French Canadian Scandinavian. He also has a little bit of Royal Greek and Royal Egyptian. I am the male Y linkage of the Royal Stewart's. The female X linkage are the Royal Sinclair's. My mother was the First Non-Petegree. I have a ton of research and information on my Y-DNA and even a family tree. But it branches at the bottom and I can't find out which branch my father is on. But what I do know is that my father and my long lost brother's and sister's are all well off and might even still be involved with the Royals. I however have to save up and try other DNA test to find closer relatives. My whole life has been nothing but a secret. Hopefully I can get some answers in the future.

You are one of my favorite KZfaqrs ever. I’m a 27 year old woman so I’ve grown up with KZfaq and your channel has withstood the test of time. Even all my roommates get quiet when I’m cleaning and have your videos playing on our living room tv. They say they wish they had a teacher like you.

I never used MyHeritage, but I use Ancestry. In 2016, I did the DNA ethnicity test. I found out that the “Irish” dna on my maternal grandfather’s side was actually Scottish and English. Three and a half years later, I discovered that I am the 10th great granddaughter of Martha Carrier, one of the Salem “Witches”. I’m descended through that same side of my family. It’s crazy what technology can do. Unfortunately, my family continues to reject their Scottish and English ancestry, even though they have a Scottish surname. Did I mention that I was not even 16 when I discovered my witchy heritage? My father’s family is southern Italian, btw. Hence why I look a bit Mediterranean lol.

the young ladies gathering at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1668">27:48</a> shows future royalty of europe: all of the 4 will be queens regnant in due time. from left to right: Estelle of Sweden, Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, Ingrid Alexandra of Norway and Elisabeth of Belgium

Raineer once mentioned that there was some Mexican heritage on their family. This is because Pierre du Polignac is a descendant of Mexican aristocracy Torre y Mier, his mother who moved to France was Susana de la Torre y Mier

This reminds me of that Vox where Queen Victoria was described as the ‘grandmother of Europe’.

I'm Belgian and the way I've always seen queen Mathilde as a member of the people : all of the interviews mentioning her wedding and introduction into the royal family always depict her as a language therapist and it's the first time I came across the fact she's a countess. It's not hidden information, it's just not what they push forward

Your range and dedication to tour craft is sublime girl! Keep going! Your work is the best and cant never have enough of it!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

And that’s why it’s a good thing ALL major royal house heirs in Europe and UK have married people far from their bloodlines. It makes for stronger genetics.

HOW CAN ANY BODY FORGET PRINCE PHILIP WAS PRINCE OF DENMARK+ GREECE

It’s a great day when Lindsay uploads!!! 🎉🎉❤ Your hard work and dedication is so appreciated. You’re my go-to comfort channel ❤ Your consistency in style (and outro!! my favorite!) makes my neurospicy brain go *brrrrr* 🥰🥰🥰 you’re the best, Ms Tea Time! Thank you!

Mathilde's (queen of Belgians)mother was from mother's side from one of the most powerfull aristocratic polish famili Sapieha

There's a reason the British aristocracy refers to the House of Windsor as "a bunch of pasty-faced Germans who have to be protected from themselves," according to the author Kitty Kelley.

The late Prince of Denmark, Prince Henrik... Was not born of bourgeois parents... or out of wedlock. He is a count from France. This is why his sons, and now grandsons, inherited the title of Count of Monpezat

Russian monarchs also were mostly German since late 1700s, so this "Russian" blood was also German

I'd requested you cover the Monaco royals back when you first did the British royals video, so I thank you for confirming how little local blood they hace, even if you include French and/or Italian heritage as being local. Well done!

This was brilliant. I can't wait for part 2!

The photo in the Monaco section about wanting to marry one of Queen Victoria’s daughters shows a photo of Queen Victoria with some of her granddaughters not daughters (specifically the Hesse princesses through Alice). Also, in that same section when talking about Princess Stephanie survive the crash after Grace Kelly’s stroke the video clip is of princess Caroline (as Stephanie was unable to attend her mother’s funeral due to her injuries).

When you were talking about Sophie , Herzogin translates to duchess in German

so excited for this and part 2!!

I would just like to say I love ur videos. I am an studio art college student/potter and I binge ur videos in the studio for hours at a time they make my art so much more fun!

Thanks as always for yet another amazing video lindsay! Can you please considee doing a video on the house of Trastamara? ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

There's kinda a glaring issue with this video. Some of the genetics are really nationalities. Unless you're and aboriginal then you're not genetically Australian. The Dutch royal family are mostly Scottish.

This is neat. Despite being a potential contender for the french throne, I'm actually less than half European. The breakdown is roughly 38% native American, 10% Iranian, 5% Japanese, and the rest is a mix of German, British, dutch, Scandinavian, French, Spanish, Russian, and Romani

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="29">0:29</a> Lindsay: "What's more Norse than the Norwegian royal family?" The Crown Prince of Norway: enthusiastic dancing on the balcony

It's a very interresting video. Just one little mistake. Leopold the 2nd of Belgium did have a son Leopold (1859-1869) but he died at 9 years old from a cold after falling in a lake. Leopold had 3 daughters Louise, Stéphanie and Clémentine (who was born after young prince Leopold's death in a atempt for the King to produce a son).

Thank you Lindsay for such a great video!

Excellent video! Can't wait for part 2 :)

I chuckled when I told my husband that he had more Norwegian DNA than the King of Norway. Heck, I have more and I'm about 85% British.

I think it's kind of funny how the Danish family is so german and then the Norwegian is more Swedish and Danish... It's really interesting - especially the knots that are still in there,

Overall great content and well presented. There is a few inaccuracies though, e.g., the husband of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark wasn't a commoner, but a French count. Also, it is quite cute how a lot of the names are mispronunced. In this regard: there is a difference between "berg" (mountain) and "b(o)urg" (palace) - you seem to pronounce them both the same.

All these percents are a bit ridiculous. These are nationalities, little to do with ethnicity.

I’m a Formula 1 fan, and I have a special affection for Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. He happens to be a native Monegasque. I have heard Prince Albert speak on several occasions. He sounds like somebody standing in line behind me a Gino’s ordering a sub. He doesn’t sound like a fancy aristocratic European. And he sounds nothing like Charles Leclerc, who as a native Monegasque speaks with a heavy French accent. Asking him to describe an incident that happened in a race, he it was nothing, just an ‘inchident’ 😂.

Hang on, but Mary would then be SCOTTISH, not Australian! Genetics, not nationality.

Fascinating episode. Thank you! 💯👏🏻🙌🏻

Gonna be making a list of incorrect information here: - Not to be too nit picky but Leopold I was actually the *third* son. He had two older brothers, Ernest III, later Ernest I, the last Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and the first Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Prince Ferdinand, who married a horrifying wealthy Hungarian heiress and whose descendants married into the Portuguese royal family and came to rule Bulgaria - Leopold II did actually have have a legitimate son, he just unfortunately died of pneumonia at the age of 9 after falling into a pond.

"they're hiding the fact that they're not native" alongside a picture of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is kind of hilarious.

Thanks for showing this!

Thanks for this wonderful episode history tea 🍵 and I enjoy it keep up the good work history tea 🍵

Love your videos!

Prince Rainiero of Monaco 's paternal grandmother was a Mexican lady, Susana de la Torre Mier y Terán

Thank You! This explains more than any thing else.

Brilliant, as ever. Thanks!

I am Norwegian and for some reason always get emotional when someone not Norwegian talk about out royal family ( ww2 and their love stories)

What means “100% American” (Grace Kelly) in genetic heritage? What means being “Austrian” or “Belgian” (used for several individuals in this video) concerning genetic heritage? It doesn’t make sense, as any serious DNA test would confirm.

Oh! Silly me. Somehow I was hoping I would get some haplotypes and mitocondrial DNA. Lol. I still appreciate your videos very much! Have a nice day!

Some corrections bout the danish royal family. First it's Gorm and not Grom, and Christian.9 was not a duke until after he became king, because those titles came with the crown

It is so fun to look for our line….always thought my self as German…I did the DNA test, I am most Swedish, Irish but very little German…found out I was named the female version….Phyllis Harriet….named for my father’s grandfather who came from Germany…

Alexandrina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was in reality at most one-sixteenth Russian. Almost all her ancestors were German, except Peter the Third of Russia, her great-great-grandfather, who was 100% Russian. The rest of it was bred out by German princesses beginning with Catherine the Great. But you've done amazing work here. By the way, you look like a younger version of your grandmother!

Queen Letizia has some English ancestry too and she doesn’t have any Filipino ancestry at all, and princess Astrid of Sweden was likely 1% Sweden, other parts of this video is VERY inaccurate

Interesting, but of course all noble and royal families are interrelated and completely international. It also depends on where in a pedigree you start and what you decide to call Portuguese or Dutch. The Dutch royals hail from Nassau in Germany and never married anyone Dutch until the 1960s. So the generations before the present king cannot really be considered Dutch.

Wonderful! If we take raw data from any of the tests and then do an ethnicity search even more surprises emerge. Although English, German and Austro-Hungarian mine came up 50% Norwegian with lots of Iceland. Interestingly, 3 separate Icelanders tried speaking to me in their language, surprised I could not speak it 😊

Thanks, I learned something 😌

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="115">1:55</a> “Imported” 😭😭😭😭😭

wow! the amount of work (as always for your content!) put into this video is astounding. ❤

Most royals in the past branch died out and they invited a German cousin to inherit the throne. Like Queen Anne who has English, Scottish, French died childless, the parliament invited the elector of Hanover a German to sit on British throne

What the hell is 50% Scottish-Australian? Should it not just be 50% Scottish, given that his mom is Scottish?

Very interesting!!

Thx U Lyndsey

its weird to see you describe people as 50% a nationality or ethnicity (the latter of which does make more sense) but i totally get why remmebering how 23 & me and other genetic test thing describe it lol. this was very interesting!

I've started looking into my family history. Found out I'm related to a bunch of people where I live. I just happened to move to the same area so it's really cool.

Liechtenstein: each of the Czech or Austrian brides had more complicated ancestry. A Czech or Austrian countess could have Polish or Hungarian ancestry or both. Hereditary Princess Sophie's father Max-Emmanuel Herzog in Bayern had a Croatian mother (Marita Draskovich) with Austrian and Hungarian ancestry. Elisabeth Douglas, Sophie's mother, has very little Scottish ancestry. Her patrilineal Douglas ancestors married Germans (an illegitimate daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden), Norwegians, Swedish, and Germans (Ottora Haas-Heye, Sophie's grandmother).

It grips my you know wht to see camilla up there wearing the crown like she earned tht right.

Being from “Argentinian descent” is just being European with extra steps

Ever since I’ve seen this done for the British Monarchs I’ve been curious about the descent of other families. My prediction; lots of German everywhere.

Since Austrians are ethnic Germans they shouldn’t be separate from German heritage in the percentage it’s kinda redundant.

You should do caption since your videos are becoming very popular

Off topic, but it would be interesting to know which parts of the British Isles people are genetically closest to their earliest known indigenous populations before conquest. ETA: I just googled this, the answer is the people of Wales. We need a video!

Denmark is not the oldest monarchy in Europe, Scotland is. The Scottish monacrhy dates from 843 AD. Second oldest is Norway which dates from 872 AD, and then Denmark in 936 AD. By the time Gorm the Old founded the Danish monarchy, Scotland was on it's 8th King.

As others have commented, this is a very good analysis but it's not 100% scientific. In theory you could get the DNA of every single blood ancestor for many generations to calculate the exact percentages, though you'd eventually get back to people from places that changed into different countries, so it would all be very complicated. You have made a good compromise at going back enough generations to see generally where people stand.

Learning this (if not as in depth as presented here) kinda blew my mind, as a teenager, back in the 90s. Of course, what with Germany not having a royal house anymore, the whole thing seems literally very foreign to me, anyway. That was around the time, the whole Princess Diana drama had played out and I couldn't for my life understand, why people cared so much about these people. Or would grant any kind of authority to non elected leaders, who literally weren't even really countrymen or women of theirs, if you go by heritage. It just seemed totally absurd. Royalty only makes sense, if the King or Queen really is the ruler of the country or if you believe in some kind od 'God granted right' to the position, which would then pass on to the 'rightful heir' of a church blessed marriage. It's all so odd!

Can you do a video on royal bastards who became monarchs or high ranking consorts?

Lindsay, your calculation should be taken with a grain of salt since we don't know the calculation of the previous generations prior to the generations you took account here.

My 4th great grandfather married Jane Moss and through her line I’m connected to the Spencer’s. My 9th great grandmother is Jane Spencer and through her line it’s strongly believed I share a common ancestor with Princess Diana Spencer (Sir John Spencer)

Gotta ask, why were the Norwegian royals bopping around right at the start? Hardly stereotypical royal behaviour but it certainly made me smile :)

Mathilde of Belgium has 50% Polish ancestry. Her mother was born in Poland and is 100% Polish, considering the last generations.

Where’s the haplogroups…Richard lll was Ydna G AND J1c…Phoenician caananite

You forget one part of the heritage of the Grimaldi family Piere's mother was Susana De la Torre y Mier a mexican socialite of spanish ancestry

Miss Lindsay, your family is in Ironton? I have family there as well. Small world

I'd like to know about the Hawai'i royal line. Please and Thank you.

*FACTS:* 1. Louise of Hesse-Kassel had a brother (Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm II) who gave birth to three sons and three daughters (1-1-2-2 in that order) with his quarter-Russian wife (Princess Anna of Prussia, the great-granddaughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia). Their youngest son Prince Frederick Charles (cousin to King Frederick VIII of Denmark) was elected King "Kaarle I" of Finland for a while in 1918. 2. Had Iceland NOT voted to become a republic in 1944, Prince Knud (second son of Christian X and thus third-cousin to who would be King "Morits I" of Finland) would have been dubbed King "Knutur" of Iceland. Thus, beginning what would have been Iceland's independent monarchy from there. Knutur will be followed by his second son "Kristjan XI" (first-cousin to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, second-cousin to King Harald V of Norway and fourth-cousin to who would have been King Donatus of Finland), as his elder sister and brother were not interested for the Icelandic crown, and recently by his daughter Queen "Josefina" (second-cousin to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, third-cousin to Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, and fifth cousin to who would have been Crown Prince "Morits II" of Finland). Josefina has a son who would have been today Crown Prince Julius of Iceland (third-cousin to Christian, Count of Monpezat and fourth-cousin to Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway). 3. If it weren't for her brother (Prince Sverre Magnus), Princess Ingrid Alexandra would have brought to an end the agnatic Norwegian branch of the House of Glucksburg (Oldenburg). That is unless she marries a distant cousin (likely one from the House of Holstein-Gottorp). 4. If Prince Christian of Monpezat marries a girl born within Metropolitan Denmark eventually giving birth to a son, the Danishness of the House of Monpezat would start to take root. If that son marries a Danish-born girl birthing their son and if this keeps up, it'll only be a matter of time before the Danish branch of the House of Monpezat eclipsed the original French branch.

Interesting!

Pierre de Polignac, Rainier’s father was 50% french and 50% Mexican.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1642">27:22</a> I can't remember any scandal at all with the coming Queen Mette-Marit, both she and the crown-Prince are very well liked, and like the current King, never any scandals or embarressments, unlike the princess that married some bald, African witchdoctor and that's after her own "angel school", where here pupils were thought to contact their guardian spirits... Mette-M. had been to some Norwegian reality TV-show and been a "party girl", but she's 100% Norwegian and I think the vast majority of Norwegians are grateful for both being the only monarchy established by election and also for getting more distance to the more Danish side of the royal dynasty.

Dammmn I'm pleasantly suprised to see many of these have Portuguese DNA (albeit not much and through a sh*t king). Also Henri Grand Duke of Luxemburg looks like a con artist

As a white Zimbabwean of British stock, I have lots of British ancestry from Scotland, England, Ireland and more from all over the British Isles. I also have a bit of French, German, Scandinavian ( Danish, Swedish ) and Croatian in me.

As a Zimbabwean of British descent, I have roots from all over the British Isles; mainly Scottish, English and Irish. I also have a bit of Croatian, French, German and Scandinavian ( Swedish and Danish ).

Question: if someone from the royal family has medals from the Second World War? And if they died would someone need to wear the medals for next Poppy Day or would the dead be buried with their medals?

the current Danish monarchs still actually can trace their genetic line back to the Viking kings. even after the split to the second cousin in the 1800s.

Duke Henri looks like queen elizabeths dad and uncle

Truly fascinating. Good work! 👍🏻🇺🇸🇪🇸🇵🇹🇮🇹 Does anyone in the world have a European history month? Certainly not in the US, unfortunately

Super Film

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> What's she got going on there? Did she just pin a necklace straight across her bouffant roll up front? Lawd 😂