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Is it normal to be related to royalty?
My paternal grandfather's great great grandparent (my great x4 grandparent) was a king, and my maternal grandmother's grandfather (my great x2 grandparent) was a king of another place. Is that normal or just a throwaway tidbit? My family is recognized by both ruling families today, but it's not like my siblings and I are any close to being in line for power or anything. I'm not sure how to feel about it. I know when you go back in time a lot of people are probably related to royalty but this wasn't too long ago and I don't get why my parents never told this to me til now. So what would you think if someone told you this about their ancestry? I'm not trying to put royals on a pedestal, but they're more likely to be written about than average people, so it interests me from an anthropological standpoint. But I think all that blue blood stuff is nonsense, we all have the same blood.
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Yes the other poster has a very good point of view here. There are alot of people who are living descendants of important people, or people who managed to single handedly turn the tide of a war that was written about in our history books.
Ill give you some examples here:
Im hawaiian, spainish, and white (the white being germany and canadian)
My hawaiian family lived on a large plantation in oahu where they raised pineapple and sugar cane, and were one of the biggest suppliers of sugar to the united states and helped the supply the 'C&H' sugar company basically become what it is today. As well as the 'dole' fruit company for their canned pinapples. I can almost promise you that if youve ate any canned pineapples before 1994 they most likely came from my families plantation. ; )
my Spainish side: my grandfather was the ill-legit child of a royal family in spain. he was the result of a union a man had with a maid in the household. He was well cared for because this man loved him but he basically NEVER met his father because he was a secret, and was sent to boarding schools far away his whole life until he came to america.
My German side: My grandfather was (and im hate to admit this) part of the machine that was the nazi rule. He was the result of the teen summer camps of arian children who were personally selected to have "the look" they wanted aka tall white, with blue eyes and blonde hair.
My great grand father owned a tavern where nazi's paid him to hold large scale events there and COULD have made a ton of money but he chose to leave and flee to canada and then to the US to get away from what he had heard at the time was 'ethnic cleansing' and he did where he then served this country and fought against them as a gunner.
Now does all this make me royalty?? hmmm i dont think so because there are no realms to be had and no crown to try to claim.
I was slowly told this stuff about my family tree from about 10 years old and on. I was left to my own devices to find out most of these things and luckily i did. Im now the historian for my family and im proud of THAT. not that i am one of the only living descendants of a royal line of a family in spain, or of the nazi party, or a hawaiian plantation that supplied what is now one of Americas biggest sugar companies.
It is important to be YOU and always remember and preserve the memory of our ancestors but not to use it to bolster yourself, because of the choices those people made and of who they were and what they did with the time they had on this earth. ; )
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I've answered this before so perhaps you didn't see the answers last time. Yes, it is normal to be related to royalty but normal isnt the best word to describe it or ask the question.
Normal isnt the word to use otherwise the opposite would be 'abnormal'. There is nothing abnormal about being related to royalty only a handful of generations back. If you'd asked if it common to be related to royalty 2x and 4x back on both sides, then the answer is No. Although I am sure if more people researched their ancestry they may be able to fine relations of at least one side of family to royalty 4, 5 generations. But that wouldn't be very common. Now if they went back further, yes, they'd eventually find something.
I think one possible reason your parents didn't say anything before is that they also dont put much stock is the 'blue blood' and one person is more pure, more important than rest of humanity bit. And didn't want to share it with you earlier thinking it might go to your head and make you act as if you where superior and everyone else inferior compared to you. Or they may have had other reasons. If you ask they most likely will explain why they waited to tell you. God never appointed Royalty to their position. Sometime somewhere back, the most confident and smartest individuals decided to take advantaage of their self confidence and just naturaly become leaders and others looked up to them. With their smarts they were able to prosper in land and other commodities even if money wasn't invented yet. As more humans populated the planet, it was easy to see that very few have leader type personalities and most are just followers and followers will look for someone to lead them or appoint them and so of course, they will want for a leader those who really seem to have their life together, how to act refined, have good business sense as well as skill at communicating with others, etc. and this is who they would appoint as their leaders and Kings by vote. Once such people had that power, they feared losing it and becoming too common again if they mixed and wed from the more common simple people who didnt seem to have the same intelligence as themselves or ability to make it look as if they did. So eventually, such families of power decided that the best way to keep their important status was to only marry others of importance who were leaders or Kings or Queens or direct children of them. Without paternity tests in the past, bastard children couldn't prove their mother or father was of such a family. And when it came to marrying, they'd look to make matches that were often only for the sake of maintaining status not because of love to produce children who were royalty as well on both sides by choosing to marry off to the nearest person of marrying age, even if they lived in another land, country. If there wasn't any other such leader type families or Kings in close enough proximity, they had to at some point in the past marry in the family, cousins, brothers and sisters to keep their blood "pure". Being too closely related was not a good thing as we know from science today for being too inbred can cause there to actually be inferiorities in the genetic makeup. So while they may not do so today, marrying that close of a relations, you can bet that in their past somewhere far enough back, the inferior qualities of some inbred offspring resides in their genes waiting to spring up occasionally. No they are not superior in any way. Just lucked into the situation over time and thru history.
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