Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
Actually Her Majesty is a descendant of James VI (I of England) and his wife, Anne of Denmark. Their eldest daughter (older sister of Charles I) was the Princess Elizabeth who married Frederick V, King of Bohemia. Their daughter Sophia married Ernst August of Hanover, and it was her son, George, who was later King George I of England and Scotland (as well as being King of Hanover).

Through her mother's family (the Bowes-Lyons) Her Majesty has even closer ties to Scotland.
Quite right, Scott.

Cheers,