Black Stewart question

[GlassMan]

It was James VI not James VII who became James I.

Whereas the Stewart genes in the House of Windsor are somewhat miniscule these days it remains the fact that they are still the Scottish royal house and the vital role of the Queen was acknowledged by Alex Salmond only this morning when her Majesty opened the new session of the Scottish Parliament.

I forget where I read it, but I have a vague memory of an article which mentioned that, because of Princess Diana's ancestry, Prince William & Prince Harry have the most Stewart blood flowing through their veins of any member of the Royal House since the Stewart dynasty. It's still not much, but it's an improvement. Now if we could only get the princes in kilts.

[McClef]

I forget where I read it, but I have a vague memory of an article which mentioned that, because of Princess Diana's ancestry, Prince William & Prince Harry have the most Stewart blood flowing through their veins of any member of the Royal House since the Stewart dynasty. It's still not much, but it's an improvement. Now if we could only get the princes in kilts.

I found a site which states:

"As regards descents from English kings, Prince William and Prince Harry are the first heirs to the throne descended from either Charles II or James II. The princes descend from Charles II by three of his mistresses - Lucy Walter, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, and the French Duchess of Portsmouth mentioned above. The princes descend from James II by his mistress Arabella Churchill, sister of the 1st Duke of Marlborough."

So some Stewart genes but through illegitimacy - some Stewarts seemed much better at that!

A fuller treatment can be found at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/e...72_659_472.asp

I was hoping to find a Stewart link in the descent of the late HM The Queen Mother that would help reinforce the Queen's Stewart ancestry through Elizabeth, daughter of James I and VI and the Hanoverians.

But the Bowes Lyon family were direct descendants of Robert II, King of the Scots by the looks of it, which certainly reinforces the Scottish connection but not with the Stewarts.

The Princes don't seem to be too keen on kilts alas which is somewhat of a departure from royal tradition since Queen Victoria.