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Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill’s friendship was turbulent, to say the least, but it got me thinking. Could there be nobles that could be called ‘the monarch’s best friend’? Obviously there’d be a slight imbalance of class, but I’m ignoring that. Two likely pairs that spring to mind are Elizabeth...

Just started watching The Crown and it just occurred to me, although Prince Phillip renounced his foreign citizenship after marrying Elizabeth II, that technically, King Charles (as he is now) is line to the Danish throne. Probably quite a fair few places after Margethe II, but I thought this...

Looking back on British royal history, it's proven to be fragile and accidental. And I couldn't help but wonder last night "if certain events had or hadn't happened, how would the succession proceed?" And here are the would-be monarchs today under particular circumstances. If George, Duke of...

I know this may look a bit out of place on Royal Genealogy, but other members have done this without problems. Anyway, according to other researchers, the family of my four-times-great-grandfather Jobe Henry West, Esquire (born April 1802 in Chatham, Kent and died July 1880 in Croydon) always...

I'm just tracing (online) paper trails for descendants of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, and stumbled across something. It is alleged that Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, later Countess of Strathmore - who would be Margaret's descendant through who history says is her father (Phillip Stanhope, 2nd...

For those who saw my "Royal couples' descendants" thread, I'm cracking a similar egg. Members of the Irish gentry from the post-1600s having crystal-clear 'Wars of the Roses' ancestry isn't uncommon, but going by research I did yesterday you have to go a fair few generations before English and...

This post about is 'common' genealogy as well as royal, but I thought I'd post it anyway - it'll make sense in a minute. I'm sure everyone's heard of the maths proof that every European, tradesman or royal, descends from Charlemagne due to the sheer force of doubling. 2 parents, 4 grandparents...

Was Matilda of Flanders REALLY as little as everyone thinks? William the Conqueror's wife has always interested me, and I know people were shorter in the 11th century, but 4 foot 2?! It's been said that whoever measured her skeleton when her tomb was first opened was a bit wishy-washy with how...

Does anyone reckon Sonia Keppel was actually Edward VII's illegitimate child? For those who don't know, Sonia Keppel was the Duchess of Cormwall's grandmother. Queen Victoria banned royal bastards from court and deemed them as "ghosts best forgotten", but Edward VII of course had many flings...