As a Finnish person, I was so surprised and happy to hear about your Finnish heritage! Most of my grandmother’s aunts and uncles moved to the States (Minnesota and Michigan) in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. We still keep in touch with our American cousins!

@RcsN505

5 ай бұрын

Having lived in Finland I can tell you Lindsay looks very Finnish! Made sense to me... Kiitos tästä videosta!

@DakotaCelt1

5 ай бұрын

A good friend of mine is Finnish and Saami....

@LindsayHoliday

5 ай бұрын

Lol, I get that a lot!

@LindsayHoliday

5 ай бұрын

Our relatives were probably on the same boat!

@TheDecoCottage

5 ай бұрын

Lots of people of Scandinavian descent in the upper Midwest. I myself am about 1/4 Norwegian and live in Wisconsin. My grandmother was 96% Scandinavian (from Norway) and 4% from the British Isles. Her parents and grandparents were all descended from Norwegian immigrants or immigrants themselves. The 4% British Isles we’ve traced to Vikings.

Hello Lindsay, Filipino here. The historical concept of Filipino as a national identity only emerged during the latter half of the 19th century so it is most likely that Letizia's ancestry reference was Spanish Filipino meaning that an insular Spanish born in the Indies and not an indigenous Austronesian Filipino as we know it today.

@kuyaAriel23

5 ай бұрын

Tama..Never mahahaluan ng Austronesian race ang Spanish bourbon hehe

@arung13

5 ай бұрын

Maternal grandmother ni Q. Letizias ay half filipino half spanish.

@arung13

5 ай бұрын

Spanish Filipino o Filipino Indio, 'di ko sure. Hehe

@ddizon666

5 ай бұрын

are u numb nuts already done dna test

@pabloarielfarfanceballos9811

5 ай бұрын

Yes, one of Letizia's maternal great-grandfathers, specifically the father of her grandma Enriqueta, mother of Paloma Rocasolano, was born in the Philippines back when the islands were part of the Spanish crown. His surname, Rodríguez, indicates that although born in the Philippines he was descendant of a family that came from Spain.

Reyna Letizia's family does not have Filipino blood. One of her great grandparent was born in PH during the Spanish Era. Back then Spanish people who were born in PH were known as Filipinos. Natives were called Indios.

Considering that Germany consisted of a lot of different indipendent small countries, each with their own royal families, Germany had considerably more royal bloodlines than any other country in Europe, so if you are scouting for royal spouses or surplus royals to be put on a throne, Germany was a good place to start. 😂

@carmenonea3800

4 ай бұрын

germans are high on royal supply and low on fuel

@davidsmith3736

4 ай бұрын

Good one.

@Anna_Key

3 ай бұрын

I agree Billy.

@user-nb2sn6id4r

3 ай бұрын

Land full of heretics... no thanks

@VenturaIT

3 ай бұрын

Germany didn't exist before 1870 and the High German didn't exist on paper before 1522 and took longer for everyone to speak it, and even today former German states speak their own dialect (and still study the High German.)

Northern Europeans are basically all the same. We have developed distinct local languages and cultures which separate us into ‘nations’ but intimately we’re not that different .

@utuberme1

3 ай бұрын

So everyone's really a German?

@paulbestwick2426

3 ай бұрын

You basically described the human race.

@Sirinxa

3 ай бұрын

I had never thought about it but actually there are countries in Europe that I tend to think of as more similar to each other than others. For historical reasons, linguistic reasons, architectural reasons, perceived atmosphere and so on I notice more similarities between: -Nordic countries -France, Italy, Spain -Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Etc.

@pb66

3 ай бұрын

@@paulbestwick2426 Actually, the races are extremely different, which is why we look so different. We have nothing in common.

@chrissy9876

3 ай бұрын

Polish are considered people of color in the U.S. 😂😂😂

Germanic (not just just German proper) ruled large parts of Europe since the collapse of Rome. Franks in France (from whom the Bourbons descend from), Visigoths in Spain (many Spanish dynasties claimed their origins from them) , Lombards in Italy as well as Norse in Russia. One of the most powerful empires in European history was the Holy Roman Empire led by Charlemagne who was a Germanic Frank from whom descends most modern royals as well as common people in western Europe. Other events such as Anglo Saxon migration and Norman conquests further spread the Germanic DNA, even to the common people. One could confidently say that the Germanic people forged Europe as it is today after the fall of Rome.

@Bosniak803

3 ай бұрын

Oh,that's my "DNA"/Germanic,but I love to be a "Jew"

@TheLiebde

3 ай бұрын

Visigoths (all "goths") in general are originally from Sweden... then they moved to Central Europe and later to Eastern Europe and Western Europe... in fact I am from Northern Spain and got in my DNA test 20% Scandinavian..

@abrakadabra2192

3 ай бұрын

@@TheLiebde well generally speaking, all germanics come from scandinavia. That Goths came from sweden is only a theory though. They could be from all the germanic origin area(scandinavia/northern germany)

@captainfury497

3 ай бұрын

@@TheLiebde Scandinavians (both ancient and modern) are also part of the Germanic people. Germanic doesn't just refer to just Germans but includes a variety of closely related peoples which includes the Nordic people. Also the origin of Visigoths isn't very clear even today. Your Norse ancestry maybe associated with them or maybe with the later settled Vikings or maybe even contacts with the Normans. Are you related to nobility? because from the genetic researches I've read Spanish people don't harbor much Germanic ancestry in general. 20% is way above average, you might want to research that further

@crystalhealing847

3 ай бұрын

All barbarians 😅😅😅

Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:48 - The Netherlands 5:56 - Spain 12:40 - Sponsor (Mondly) 14:01 - Sweden 18:54 - The United Kingdom (UK) 25:09 - Why is Everyone So German? 29:13 - Podcast Advertisement + Outro 29:37 - End of The Video

@mj9949

5 ай бұрын

❤

@ms.migrant

Ай бұрын

Thank you

The definition of a Filipino in the late 19th century, when Queen Letizia’s ancestors were born, was different from today. Queen Letizia’s grandmother was indeed a Filipino, but it meant that she was a Spanish born in the Philippines. The term Filipino only applied to the native population in the 20th century. Prior to that, our ancestors called themselves what their local ethnicity was - Tagalog, Bisaya, Kapampangan, Ilocano etc

lindsay is the reason why I'm such a history nerd!!

@jardon8636

5 ай бұрын

wunderbar, par excellence, the crem de la cream,... she is super at european royal history...

Yay! Finland mentioned!! As a Finn, a small nation in population and different from our neighbours, we celebrate every time Finland is mentioned anywhere!😂 I was born in Turku, in which there is the medieval castle you posted a picture from. It is the only Finnish castle that held court.

The Russian House of Romanoff was really the German house of Holstein-Gottorp. The last monarch of Russia who had mostly Russian blood was Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I. Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor, had almost no russian blood. It is hard to believe the First World War could have happened, considering how closely related all the monarchies were.

@nirfz

4 ай бұрын

I recommend the book "Sleepwalkers" about the topic of WW1's outbreak. It's about the last decades before it and how it got that far. In very short about the last russian emperor he was pushed into that direction by others. And the english monarch basically had to do what the government told him to represent. The british government would have been more likely to stay out of the war (at least initially) if the germans would not have gone through Belgium.* My opinion: the british could have even joined the other side even despite their agreements with the french, if the germans would have waited longer with their belgium march because the french also thought abuot going through Belgium... Belgium-neutrality-violation is what brought the british into the mess mostly.

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Never knew anything about ww1

@Elena-bz6gk

4 ай бұрын

Россия вступила в войну спасать своих православных братьев сербов, которым оказывала всяческую помощь. России нужен был мир между Сербией и Болгарией и влияние России на Балканах.

@j.y.5276

3 ай бұрын

Yes nobody wants ruled by other kingdom's blood group. Not makes sense that Germans ruling the Russia.

@tjs114

3 ай бұрын

World War 1 was essentially a giant family spat between first cousins which in some regions allowed the common people to do away with their monarchies either politically, or violently.

Thanks to Princess Diana’s genetic ‘background’, Prince William will be the most British King genetically speaking and all, in generations! And then through William’s marriage to Princess Catherine, Prince George will be even more British!

@mrvgstyle2442

3 ай бұрын

Prince George IS more British, not will be! Thank you to Spencers and Middletons!

@sylph99

4 күн бұрын

Unlike Harry’s kids

Gotha is pronounced "Gota", at least by the British royal family. German doesn't have the "th" sound we have in English. They pronounce it as "t".

Always looking forward to your videos lindsay! You're a master storyteller! Always have a great time listening to you! Keep going😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

Tuesday ain't Tuesday without a new episode of the amazing lindsay! Your range and dedication to your craft is sublime girl! Keep going! Your work is the best and cant never have enough of it! 12:41 Specially loved that tree! You're truly one of a kind!

Fantastic episode. Thank you, Lindsay.

Just a minor correction: Maria Amalia of Saxony wasn't half Polish. Her father was Frederic Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (HRE) from the Wettin family. You know, the same family which ist almost EVERYWHERE :D He and his father just happened to also be elected kings of Poland for a time, but the family itself is as german as it gets.

@mt23downpayment53

5 ай бұрын

She makes a lot of mistakes like that, I try not to take her videos as gospel

@ulrikjensen6841

5 ай бұрын

The most interesting thing is that the northern democratic - even social democratic has preserved the monarchy; of course Spain is in the South of Europe 😊

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Germans everywhere!

@mgeez6147

3 ай бұрын

I wish Henry Louis Gates would do the ancestry of someone polish catholic, he has done several roots of polish jewelry and the pale of settlement. Well at least there was a polish pope.

I was always curious about this, but it's also important to note that dna doesn't distribute evenly, so the only way of really knowing their genetic heritages would be through dna tests.

@legacyxlove

5 ай бұрын

Yes! I am the only one in my immediate family to have blue eyes. Both my parents and brother have brown, but two of my grandparents had blue.

@TheDecoCottage

5 ай бұрын

True, though the percentages that Lindsay is giving would likely be relatively close to what we’d probably see in a DNA test. On paper I’m 25% Norwegian, 25% Croatian, 25% Russian and 25% mix of other European origins (English, Welsh, French, German, and Irish). My actual DNA test says I’m 39% Norwegian, 21% Baltics (Ukraine, Poland and Russia), 18% Eastern Europe (Slovenia & Croatia), 13% England & NW Europe (England, Germany & France), 5% Balkans (Croatia), 4% Welsh/Irish. Based on this, my mom’s genetics were stronger than my dad’s as the Norwegian and Croatian are more than 50%; though it’s possible my paternal grandmother had some Scandinavian decent.

@brooks7894

5 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@TheDecoCottage50 percent of your generics are inherited from each parent, so neither can be genotypically dominant (ethnicity/ancestry). Though one parent’s genes can be phenotypically dominant over the other (physically resembling one parent more than the other, or a close resemblance to a maternal or paternal family member)

@MarinaMontserrat

4 ай бұрын

Tests tell us about % in genotypes But all we can see are phenotypes we look at characteristics like colours of skin, hair, eyes... And more than one gene usually 2-3 have influence over them

@la95921

4 ай бұрын

@@TheDecoCottage "21% Baltics (Ukraine, Poland and Russia)," those aren't baltic.

I appreciate you so much! This channel has captivated my autistic teen, and is the main reason were surviving 9th grade history and social studies.💖

@LindsayHoliday

5 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I could help! Good luck in 10th grade!

Lovely 2-part series.

Love everything you post, huges from Mexico!

Fantastic series can't wait for your next video 😊

I have doubts on Queen Letizia's Filipino ancestry. Filipino, in the Philippines's Spanish Colonial era, refers to Spaniards of Iberian peninsular ancestry born in the Philippine Archipelago. So, it's most likely that "Filipino" ancestor of Queen Letizia was born in the Philippine archipelago but is still genetically Spanish. But still interesting in anyway to know that Queen Letizia's ancestors has some ties to the Philippines, although maybe not genetically.

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Explain this better, please

@XYZOxyz

4 ай бұрын

Unrelated question that I hope you might be able to help me with. My DNA test came back as 10% Iberian. I've been trying to figure out what exactly that means. Can you tell me who Iberians are, where did they come from? Thanks for any info you can provide.

@davicbertiz6977

4 ай бұрын

@@XYZOxyz that means you have ancestors from the Iberian peninsula which consists countries Spain and Portugal.

@davicbertiz6977

4 ай бұрын

@@mgeez6147 In the Philippines' Spanish colonial era, the term "Filipino" doesn't refer to the natives who live on the Philippine Archipelago instead it refers to Spaniards born in the Archipelago. So genetically they are Spanish but their place of birth is just the Philippine Archipelago. The natives were called "indio" but in modern times, the term "Filipino" now refers to every single people native to the archipelago or are genetically. It's more complicated than what I can explain and I can't say it all here in the comments so do your own research Just know these two terms (In the Spanish colonial era) Indio- natives of the Archipelago Filipino - born in the Archipelago but genetically a Spaniard

@XYZOxyz

4 ай бұрын

@@davicbertiz6977 Ok, I know that. Do you know where they came from, are they Arabs?

Nice series so far! 👏🏽

Hello from Boston, Lindsay. Wonderful job ! You have a true story telling voice. So engaging and easy to follow. Thank you.

@Man-in-the-green

3 ай бұрын

Why do Americans always were they are from? Who cares?

The topic is the genetic history of the monarchs, but at the end you discussed the six women by country of birth and not their genetic makeup. For example, Princess Grace is American but genetically is half German and half Irish. All of those women are genetically European (even the Filipino most likely) despite where they were born.

@VenturaIT

3 ай бұрын

Germany didn't exist before 1870 and the language (High German) didn't exist on paper before 1522, so I'm not sure how she is calling most of these ancestors "German"?

@Fires755

3 ай бұрын

This is BS!! You got it!!

@cecileroy557

3 ай бұрын

@@VenturaIT But Germanic tribes existed long before "German" as a language came into codified usage. You must be aware that the Angles and Saxons brought their own form of "German" to England when they invaded - many English words come from that time.

@VenturaIT

3 ай бұрын

Only OTHER people called them German/Germanic... German is a latin word, they didn't call themselves German... why are Dutch, Swedes, Norge, Belgic, not Germanic or are they? Holland borders Germany today, but Dutch aren't German? Dutch are Dutch but Germans speak Dutch and are Dutchlanders? hmmm Even today Germans don't call themselves German except when speaking English or latin language... the other German languages are very similar, but German also has a lot of similarities to Sanskrit even. What's your point? She is saying they are all German, but they aren't all German... are Austrians German? I guess they have a lot of German DNA if you call all humans German, lol. Not.@@cecileroy557

@joseffinat966

3 ай бұрын

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This was FASCINATING!! Thank you Lindsay!

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, I find watching Drew Pritchard going to family estates in Britain interesting.

Mountbatten and Battenberg means actually the same. Berg translates to mountain.

@fuqupal

2 ай бұрын

Mountbatten was a psychopath. That's why he was blown up

I think it would be absolutely fascinating to do a dna test. There was a program on tv a few years back. They even went back around 50,000 years to show where you originally came from and where your ancestors went. Boy, they certainly got around. Fascinating 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👵🇦🇺

As mentioned in the last video. On my maternal side, my family is directly descended from the Scottish Ogilvy clan and the Earls of Airlie Castle. Amazingly enough, we have found we are directly related to Lady Clementine Ogilvy Spencer Churchill, ( wife of Winston Churchill ) through the Ogilvy clan on our family tree. Lady Spencer-Churchill also connects us to the Spencer family through marriage and family. Not just that, we also have famous relatives such as Angus Ogilvy ( the husband of Princess Alexandra ) and the famous Scottish Napier line of Barons who were friends with the royal family and made their mark on history.

Great Video! I've tried to explain this to others many times, but you have done it best.

Great video!! Extremely informative and interesting

As a Dutch person I can say that indeed I do not really care about the fact that our royal family is mostly German. We know that… it’s even in our national anthem (“am I from Deutsche blood”). They are of course very Dutch by the way they act. They do culturally Dutch things, speak the language etc. That said: I love this video. It’s so fun to see all the percentages from all these royal families. If Amalia finds a partner I do hope a little bit that she wil find a Dutch partner (as long as she is happy ofcourse). A little bit of Dutch genes back in de royal family would be fun.

@coraholunder1989

5 ай бұрын

Frisians at least have a lot of also Frisian relatives in Germany anyway. I consider myself German but my mom's side of the family is from East Frisia and even has a Dutch surname.

@Svitification

4 ай бұрын

Wrong map is shown for the Netherlands

@1993ALI

4 ай бұрын

Are royals allowed to marry commoners?

@coraholunder1989

4 ай бұрын

@@1993ALI European royals, yes. After witnessing too much inbreeding and our countries becoming democratic the commoners wouldn't let any royals keep representing us if they kept on marrying their cousins.

@kaygrace5250

4 ай бұрын

All this Royal talk is BS!!! Geet rid of them, aren't you tired of working hard and paying them all your money on taxes that they inforce so they can be rich and lazy. They dont care Not for You, you are just another animal to them. Your reality of this will be soon.

In Spain and Portugal a lot of people have Germanic ancestry from the Suebi and Visigoths

@batminton7467

3 ай бұрын

no they don't. that's pure n z i propaganda. there are no archeological nor written evidences of the existence of those fake made up tribes. and the book march of the titans or the like are not written evidence. those are made up fantasy stories. spain and portugal are ethically roman aka mediterranean. and they are not a mix of germanic and arab people. that's a modern made up fantasy.

@onewotldgovernmentonlywhen9044

3 ай бұрын

Many Hispanics have both Spain and Portugal, Jewish and Arabs as well

@uptown_rider8078

3 ай бұрын

@@onewotldgovernmentonlywhen9044 Hispanics do not have jewish or arab

@thepretorian5292

3 ай бұрын

Lmao maybe like 0.1%

@uptown_rider8078

3 ай бұрын

@@thepretorian5292 It’s much more than that

Intresting to hear about your finnish heritage! Hope your finnish studies are going well, I applaud you for even trying since it is such a complicated language :) Fantastic video btw, you explain all of it in such a clear way.

19:10 One should note, Sophia of Hanover was actually NOT Anne’s *nearest* Protestant relative. The nearest relative was actually Sophia’s grandniece Frederica Mildmay, Dowager Countess of Holderness, Countess FitzWalter and 3rd Countess of Mértola, as she was the daughter of Raugravine Caroline Elisabeth, the child of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine and his morganatic wife Marie Luise von Degenfeld. My presumption is that she was passed over because she wasn’t royalty or because Britain considered Charles and Marie’s marriage bigamous as his former wife, Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, outlived him.

@Chuck0856

13 күн бұрын

Sopia was the senior ranking Protestant relative.

@Edmonton-of2ec

13 күн бұрын

@@Chuck0856 Well no shit, she was married to the ruler of a German state. But her blood relationship was not the closest.

As a swede, im thankful to victoria for chosing daniel as a mate, finally brining back some swedish blood to the throne.

@gudagaava

4 ай бұрын

... and some Finnish blood as well. That was about time, since Finland was part of Sweden for over 700 years.

@mercator5484

3 ай бұрын

Your‘e king should be arab or somali.

@ghostviggen

3 ай бұрын

@@mercator5484That would be problematic according to the law, since the king needs to be a member of the Church.

@ls-l1518

3 ай бұрын

​@@mercator5484😂

@ls-l1518

3 ай бұрын

And he is really Swedish, when you look at his ancestors.

24:11 Here you said that Diana was the daughter of the Earl of Spencer which is incorrect, Diana was the daughter of The Earl Spencer not The Earl of Spencer.

House of Bernadotte reigning is Sweden is French.

I love the expressions of the proud Mama and Papa who obviously love their three adorable children so much at 4:54 !!!🥰

How about a video on Finnish history to celebrate your heritage, Lindsay? December 6th just so happens to be Finland's Independece Day...😊

Wonderful video!!!

Wonderful and inspiring episode 🤗🤭👏

Fascinating! I’d always wondered about the German connection. My mother was English, with a paternal Scottish grandfather. My American father was descended from English colonists from Jamestown, Virginia on his mother’s side and English, Scots-Irish on his father’s side. I’ve never had a DNA test, but my sister did, and apparently we have Scandinavian (probably Vikings who settled in the British Isles). Anyway, I really appreciate the research and hard work you must have done to put all this together. I’ve subscribed and will be catching up on your other videos.

@henningbartels6245

3 ай бұрын

The Vikings came to England 1000 years ago that is like 40 generations. If the test is right then it must be some more recent relative probably from the American fathers side.

It's just incredible that royals can trace back their lineage to thousands of years! The furthest I can go is my great great grandparents:D

@here_we_go_again2571

5 ай бұрын

Supposed lineage. There was a lot of hanky-panky going on over the millennia

@lilymarinovic1644

5 ай бұрын

​@here_we_go_again2571 noble women tended to get in loads of trouble if they were caught cheating. See Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard plus Sophia Dorothea of Celle. So lots of incentive not to stray.

@roxyortiz8819

5 ай бұрын

@@here_we_go_again2571right, there were no paternity test until VERY recent history

@mrssparkles6488

5 ай бұрын

I manage to trace back as far as 15th/16th, only my dad's side, mainly my dad's dad, so my granddad

@lelouchlamperouge8560

5 ай бұрын

‘Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.’ - Orwell ‘History is a lie agreed upon.’ - Bonaparte (?)

The "Russian" percentage due to the marriage of king George of Greece to the Russian princess Olga is actually also German.

@olgahein4384

3 ай бұрын

Well, one of the reasons why the revolution against the Romanov family in early 20th century Russia even happened was because everybody agreed that the russian Tsars were not russian anymore. They married german royals and nobles for so long, that you can say the russian empire of that time was ruled by german.

@soringoldenberg2856

3 ай бұрын

@@olgahein4384 culturally they were Russian Orthodox.

UR FINNISH?? Thats so coool! Greetings from Finland😍

EXCELLENT Video, 100%!!!

even though I don't look Finnish, my great-gran is Finnish and I'm named after her. I know just the basics from when I was a kid that she taught me, but I'm definitely getting Mondly!

When Prince William ascends to the British throne, the UK will return to a Jacobite kingdom via Princess Diana's distant Stuart bloodline. Go Scotland! No need to argue some obscure point with me. My family left in 1745 when we were dispossessed. As founding US citizens, we will support William as a Jacobite dream come true. Thank you.

@Chuck0856

13 күн бұрын

No, the Jacobites were Catholic pretenders William is nothing of the sort.

@paulathepoodlelover

13 күн бұрын

@@Chuck0856 Yes but WE are still Catholic, and proud citizens rather than mere subjects. 'Thank God Almighty We Are Free At Last.' ~Mlk Jr While William may not be perfect, he's much preferred over the other lines. We have the Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon to thank for her infusion of Scottish heritage, along with Queen Elizabeth II for her love of the Highlands. Their religious ancestors were more Trumpian than I would like but ... if I were Queen, there'd be some changes made.

Wow what an awesome history podcast ❤

Finnish lady here! Nice to hear about your family.

I never knew about Queen Letizia having distant Filipino ancestry. I did 23andme some months ago and the genetic report showed I had trace amounts of Filipino & Austronesian ancestry.

@lebou9540

5 ай бұрын

Her grandmother (Enriqueta) born in the Philippines looked mostly, if not entirely Spanish. Some Spaniards who lived there never mixed at all.

@machikokyokyosan8104

5 ай бұрын

@@lebou9540 Nunca fue una colonia, si no territorio del Imperio Español.

@laikacons

5 ай бұрын

I’m part-Spanish in my mother’s side of the family but we claim to be “full” Filipino.

@ZenaidaRoxas-yk8pp

5 ай бұрын

The Philippines was a colony of Spain not a territory. The Spanish crown ruled the country for more than 300 years. It was ruled via the Viceroy of Mexico.

@buckoleon

3 ай бұрын

@@ZenaidaRoxas-yk8pp Spain didn´t have colonies, the Philippines had representatives at the Spanish Parliament and they were equal to their peninsular counterparts

Maria Amalia of Saxony wasn't Polish her mother was austrian her father german.

The way Germany printed out princess brides like it was fun😂

I thank you for this source of knowledge, our Vietnamese royal family also had marriages with foreign countries. Before that, they did not marry foreigners for fear of losing royal power and authority and fear of invasion. When our Queen Anh Nguyet ascended the throne, she made marriage with foreigners legal, her grandfather also approved but her father didn't seem to like it. It can be said that the Vietnamese royal family is also normal and simple and close to the public without much publicity

Marrying local has become so important in the British monarchy. The 'German' jokes are too close to the bone.

@Afterthefallout55660

3 ай бұрын

A british Royal to his friend:" Why are there so many tree lined streets and leafy lanes in France? Germans like to march in the shade." Hahaha! That's a good one Ohhh... Is anything okay? - "I think my hearth stumbled a bit" must be the potato dish...

You are wrong about that Bernadotte means “Strong, brave bear”, Bernadotte means more that Jean Baptist was from the province of Béarn. The name Béarn derives from Beneharnum, the capital city of the ancient Venarni people. The heraldry of Béarn was two oxen. Béarn is also the place where béarnaise sauce comes from.

In your analysis, you should not distinguish between Austrian and German… Until 1871, Austria was part of the German empire. So it’s would be similar to saying that a person is 25% American and 25% Texan (in other words they are really 50% American).. Likewise 25% German +25% Austrian is essentially 50% German. This is why, in discussion of classical composers, Austrian and German composers are categorized as Germanic or Austro-Germanic.

So I’m ethnically more Swedish than the current King of Sweden! Wow. 🇸🇪 Thoroughly enjoyed this video. You have yourself a new subscriber. ☺️

Great video, thanks! It's a lot of fun to look at History from different angles. There is a caveat with the Spanish Borbon Dynasty blood proportions. It's believed that King Consort Francisco de Asis was not the father of any of Queen Isabel II's children, since he had a congenital disease and also was famously homosexual. The most likely father of Alfonso XII seems to be a military aristocrat from Valencia, Captain of the Guard and Queen's lover at the time, Enrique Puigmoltó. I'd say that would result of an extra percentage of Spanish blood to current Heir, Princess Leonor. It's mentioned in Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_II_of_Spain

Thanks as always for yet another amazing video lindsay! Can you please consider doing one in the tragic love story of Charlotte of wales and her husband leopold? 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

Hi! I enjoy your videos. Thank you for producing them. You used a color photograph of what looks like a gathering of European royal families in your monarch DNA videos. Who is the Black gentleman I saw standing on the left? I know that one of the sons of either the monarch of Luxembourg or Lichtenstein married a Black woman. Did the guy in the photo have anything to do with her?

I would assume that Austrians and Germans are genetically pretty much the same.

@schwarzer0se463

3 ай бұрын

Austrians are part of the Germans

It's incorrect to say that Victoria of Baden had "Swedish" DNA because of her ancestor King Gustav IV Adolf when he himself was of German and Danish stock.

Maria Amalia of Saxony was not Polish at all. Her father was German. Saxony is in Germany. Her Father Augustus the 3rd of Poland was the German elector of Saxony which was part of the Holy Roman Empire kicked out the actual ethnically Polish king Stanislaw to become King of Poland. Poland had an elected monarchy not a hereditary one so Augustus was elected but he was not Polish

Thank you. Your video was great. Very informative. What sources did you use for your research? I would love to do something like this for my family that includes the following Houses: Federici, Maffei, Guardi, Thun, Caldes and many more.

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

I don't understand all of these names??

The reason that most of Europe's remaining monarchs are of strong German blood is because of two famous European monarchs who reigned largely in the 19th century. Those two monarchs were Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and King Christian IX of Denmark. Those two monarchs were of largely German blood. They both had many children who married into other European royal families and in turn produced grandchildren and great grandchildren , etc . Again that is one of the main reasons that many of those remaining monarchs of Europe who are descended from both Queen Victoria and King Christian IX have largely German blood.

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Would like to hear more European history and how it affects all of us today.

@herondelatorre4023

4 ай бұрын

@mgeez6147 Well, you could look for other websites online that talk about the history of European monarchies during the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries or you could also try finding books that talk about that same subject too.

@crystalhealing847

3 ай бұрын

Barbarian blood 😅😅😅

@batminton7467

3 ай бұрын

@@crystalhealing847 dude ... that's mean 😂. but every royal line since the dawn of mankind is paternally ruled. having kids with a foreign woman does not change anything. the fenotype of a certain person might change a bit ... but who cares.

She said Elizabeth was the first member of the royals who had British blood ? There’s no such thing. The term British is a political designation only. She was evidently half Scottish and half English. No DNA study would say a person has “British “ blood.

Queen Letiza of Spain has zero filipino blood. Letizia's "filipino" ancestor was born in the Philippines from two Spanish parents. Full stop.

Excellent programme.

Hello, Lindsay! Greetings from Spain. Let me share some information about the Spanish heritage that has not been considered. Queen Isabella II was forced to marry her cousin Prince Francis of Asis because of political reasons. Her new husband was homosexual and the queen had a lot of lovers during her life. The Duke of Cadiz always recognized Isabella's children as his own in exchange for financial compensation. The child who was to become Alfonso XII was more than likely the result of Isabel's relationship with her young lover, the Valencian engineering officer Enrique Puigmoltó. Therefore, King Alfonso XII was 50% Spanish and this fact totally affects the heritage of his descendants.

@anastasianikolaevnaromanoff

5 ай бұрын

So Felipe VI is not a Borbon, but Puigmolto 😂

@ruthy5895

5 ай бұрын

@@anastasianikolaevnaromanoffSigue siendo Borbón porque la que estaba en el trono era su madre Isabel por lo que la línea de sucesión sigue sin importar el padre.

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Love Henry Louis Gates finding your roots, this should be studied by his program

I’m so happy that Queen Letizia of Spain’s Filipino roots were recognized. During that time, Spaniards born in the Philippines were called “Filipinos”. Kudos again to a wonderful video.

@ashley_ncd

5 ай бұрын

I was shocked when queen letizia is a half Filipino i thought she is pure blood spanish

@Lacteagalaxia

5 ай бұрын

@@ashley_ncd Phillipnes is a Spanish colony more Spaniards living in this time in Phillipines and they Spaniards married each other .

@MarieFirst

5 ай бұрын

@@Lacteagalaxia So she is in reality spanish and not filipino. Her spanish ancestors only lived in the Philippines

@laikacons

5 ай бұрын

That’s true! Society can learn a thing or two from Filipinos when it comes to reclaiming their roots

@Mar-wc4th

3 ай бұрын

Filipinas?😂

You made my day! Thank you so much!

That’s because between the second half of the 17th century and the beginning of the 20th century the main power in the world was the German dynasties originated predominantly from the Holy Roman Empire. Before them the main power was the Turkic (also referred as Tatar, Mongol, Moghul, Cuman) dynasties of Asia (which ruled in modern-day China, India, Pakistan, Russia, the Eastern half of Europe, the North Africa, the Central Asia, and the whole Middle East, including Arab countries, Iran, and Turkey). And nowadays from the 1910s the main power is the Jewish financial dynasties of the USA, Europe, and the Middle East.

That ad transition was elegantly executed. Good show.

Silvia of Sweden also has distant indigenous brazilian ancestry, with one of her ancestors beign Tibiriça, a great leader of the Tupiniquim tribe that allied with the Jesuits and helped settle southeastern Brazil.

12:41 omg teen Lindsay😭😭

My Suomalinen sister ! ❤️ All of my grandparents are from Finland! Be humbley grateful. Our ancestors sacrificed a lot for us to be acknowledged by the rest of the world. Visit Finland. Become acquainted with our heritage. It is your blessing.

It would be interesting to see other Royal Houses in Europe - i.e Karageorgevich from Serbia, as their house originated from Serbia. On the other hand - the most of the future monarchs in Europe will actually be from their respective kingdom

All that intertwined blood is a good reason to find non-royal nor aristocratic blood to marry into. Every single major European heir to thrones have married commoners to mix the bloodlines. British Monarchy as well.

I think Germanic would be a better term,, since Germany wasn't a thing early before and during the HRE.

@pussbeaver1218

2 ай бұрын

@AaronSchlumberger germanic doesn't mean any nationality. Just a stock of originating (historically speaking) in northern Germany and Denmark. It's a people's group that share similar culture and values. (Historical). Also america??? Maybe when it was the 13 colonies but not nowadays. America is too diverse but also all the countries you just mentioned

1:54 One should note William’s inheritance of the Principality of Orange was rather strange because he wasn’t actually descended from any previous Prince of Orange, he was the paternal uncle of the previous Prince, Rene of Chalon, who inherited the principality from his mother, William’s sister-in-law. So his nephew just *willed* him the principality

Actually, you're not exploring their DNA at all; you're exploring their apparent ancestry.

@henningbartels6245

4 ай бұрын

exactly. It is still interestion , because it could be different to the House in their name suggest.

as a brazilian I LOVE to watch videos of Queen Silvia speaking portuguese she is so chic and smart

@mgeez6147

4 ай бұрын

Who is queen Silvia?

@patriciaboyd2681

3 ай бұрын

Queen of Sweden 🇸🇪

I understand this video is meant more for entertainment than for science, one has to point out there is no "German DNA" and popular DNA test kits would cluster Germany, Netherlands and Austria as one heritage regions because DNA markers are fairly the same.

@olgahein4384

3 ай бұрын

True, for several millenias there was a LOT of migration going on in Europe and todays Germany was in the center of it all.

Can you do a video about the royalty from the royal diaries book series?

23:43 *Correction:* Elizabeth II and Phillip are second cousins _once removed_ through Christian IX and third cousins through Victoria. Christian IX is Phillip's great grandfather and 2X great grandfather of Elizabeth II.

Of all the ancestral genetic DNA testing sites being offered on the web, which one is might likely to include present day Royal DNA specimens? Or, do they avoid any such testing sites and keep their bloodline & ancestry private from outsiders?

@nirfz

4 ай бұрын

Most likely the latter.

You could have added that Lady Diana's direct maternal line is indian, as her mitochondrial dna's haplogroup is indian. She is the descendent of Elizabeth Kewark, who was the daughter of an Indian woman and an Armenian man. It's less than 1 % of Diana's ancestry but it's a fun anecdote. As for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, her Spanish/Portuguese ancestry had nothing black about it. That's insane that people are so uneducated (or gone woke). First of all, the Moors are not black/Sub-Saharan but an indigenous people of North Africa (Berbers), so they are light-skinned and have mediterranean features and are genetically very far from Sub-Saharan Africans. Plus during the Middle Ages, the term "Moor" became synonymous with muslim (like the terms "saracens" and later "turks"), so it was all about religion not about race, understandably so as physical features weren't divergent enough around the Mediterranean to use racialist terminology (unlike later in the Spanish and Portuguese New World Empires). There were however many black slaves in Al Andalus imported from Sub-Saharan Africa), and they were never referred to as "Moros"/"Mouros"/Moors but as "Negros". So there is no such thing as "black Moors". Finally, most of the population of the Iberian peninsula during the islamic period was still primarily Iberian, albeit with more North African ancestry than modern Iberians carry because the Reconquista was accompagnied by migrations from the North of Iberia (remaining Christian Kingdoms), from Basques migrations too (except in the Westernmost areas like Portugal) and from other European countries like Occitania, France, Flanders etc. It's worth mentioning that this North African ancestry in Iberia didn't really go up during the islamic era and was similar in levels to those of Southern Iberia/Baetica during the Iron Age and Roman era. In any case, if Queen Charlotte's ancestor in Iberia had "black" ancestry, it would have been called negro/negra not mo[u]ro/mo[u]ra. Crazy to have to state the obvious in these woke and uneducated days....

@The1987Kid

4 ай бұрын

Saying that people calling Queen Charlotte black is “woke” is bs, that has been around for decades before anything woke, you must not be up on pop culture like that, I agree she isn’t black or a moor, she has a legitimate family lineage of the German House of Mecklenburg that is prestigious in its own right, but I had to correct that because that concept of Queen Charlotte being black or a moor predates this current “woke” terminology

@voxveritas333

4 ай бұрын

Strange that nobody now ever heard about that before that ridiculous TV program this last year or so. It got played up in the stupid show-biz world enough, thanks to the "woke" world's trying to revise and rewrite history to suite their skewed views of world history. WHITE LIVES MATTER TOO, BABY.@@The1987Kid

@larynOneka8080

4 ай бұрын

Please define woke. Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg -Strelitz having black ancestry has been a rumor perpetuated by Europeans for over a century.

@Bcfcuklhpwalker

3 ай бұрын

Indigenous north Africans per Islam rb2222 northen western euro dna rb2 we the same stock which btw came from northern India an you there an the Indigenous kalash are still there an the folks say there the Indigenous peoples to that regoin

It also makes more sense why militaries of the world all seem to have the same or VERY similar looks and why their medals and regalia look the same.

if anything, it would be weird if Luxembourg and Liechtenstein didn't have a ton of Germanic DNA because they are in the region the was settled by the original Germanic tribes. treating Austrian and German DNA as 2 entirely separate gene pools also seems pretty odd because the Bavarian tribe had been split in 2 with half settling in the region of Bavaria and being considered German and the other half settling in Austria to be considered Austrian along with 1 or 2 other Germanic tribe. Austria is political separate from Germany, but there is a lot of cultural overlap between the 2 and genetically there is no real difference between Austria and southern Germany. pretty cool video idea, but genetic groups and country borders aren't the same thing. more so this should have looked more at Germanic, Nordic, Gaelic/Celtic, and other such genetic groupings. the answer still would have been a ton of Germanic heritage though. so almost the same result but still. this mixed the concept of cultural heritage with genetic heritage. so what was actually followed through was the cultural heritage of each royal family but ultimately still very cool to see and understand

As a Zimbabwean of British descent, I have roots from all over the British Isles, particularly Scottish, English and Irish heritage. I also have a little Croatian, French, German, Scandinavian ( Swedish and Danish ) in me as well.

The European royalties came from German tribal chiefs. So iit is no surprise that they were mostly Saxons and Franks.

The Netherlands, while neutral durig world war 1, also suffered heavily during world war 2, so when princess Beatrix picked a German spouse, that was heavily controversial at the time, and never really forgotten.

"Also" i would love for you to do a video on the United Arab eu royal family, and what if they share relationship with the British royals.

This was an interesting, comprehensive video but unless l missed it there is one very important aspect of the GERMAN - ENGLISH CONNECTION (aside from the fact that both have Germanic languages and that quite a few English people have German in their blood due to the German occupation, following the Roman occupation and preceding the French one) that should be mentioned. After Henry Vlll split with Catholicism (due to the Pope's refusal to let him annul his marriage, so he could marry Anne Boleyn), he started the CHURCH of ENGLAND. From there on any ROYALS marrying into the ENGLISH FAMILY had to be PROTESTANT. CONVENIENTLY the GERMAN ROYALS were PROTESTANT and a precedent was set.

@braemtes23

3 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. The main reason the Brits did not marry into Spain, Portugal, etc. is their Catholic faith.

This insight into Royal ancestry is fascinating. It seems that Princess Diana of England and I were 9th cousins on her fathers side. Our common ancestor was Henry Legassicke 1631-1682 living in Devon England. It seems to be unclear if the name was of french origin or from Cornwall in England. I wonder how that would tie into the heritage of her son Prince William, the next King of England? It would then be that I am 9th cousin once removed to the King of England. That is so fantastic.

@scarlett19b

3 ай бұрын

*You do realize that the Modern-day monarchs/royals of the U.K. aren't in any way related to the OG monarchs/royals.. as in; The Plantagenets!?*

@olgahein4384

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, i wouldn't bet my ass on any relations on paternal sides until a DNA test proves it.

@scarlett19b

3 ай бұрын

@@olgahein4384 *That has already been done actually.. there's even a documentary about it!*

@nopretribrapture2318

3 ай бұрын

similar here,im related to the British Royal family through King George iv, possibly via one of his mistresses, not fully known yet, still searching

@nopretribrapture2318

3 ай бұрын

im related to them and was conceived on plantagenate street st Anne's Nottingham, the houses were demolished few years later

Omg I'm a Filipino avid viewer of your channel from my old account on my old phone. Your channel just shocked me queen of Spain is 12.5 first time I saw her she reminds me of old celebrity here in the Philippines who's a Spanish descendant from the south of the Philippines.

@jake-qn3tl

3 ай бұрын

Do you have any Spanish ancestry?

I forget about what is actual history sometimes. I’ve been told by some people many different things. It is great to learn the truth