William, Prince of Wales
William, Prince of Wales, in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: William Arthur Philip Louis
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 21 June, 1982
Ethnicity: English, European Royal (mostly), some Scottish, as well as German, Irish, French, Anglo-Irish, Hungarian, likely 1/128th Gujarati Indian or 1/256th Indian, and smaller amounts of Dutch, Danish, Welsh, Belgian, Swedish, Swiss, Bohemian/Czech, Russian, Polish, Channel Islander/Jersey, possibly 1/256th Armenian
William, Prince of Wales is an English royal. He is the heir apparent to the British throne. He is the son of Charles III, who has been King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, since 8 September, 2022, and of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the grandson of Elizabeth II, who was Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, from 6 February, 1952 to 8 September, 2022, and of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His brother is Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. His stepmother is Camilla, Queen consort of the United Kingdom.
He is married to Catherine, Princess of Wales, with whom he has three children, including Prince George of Wales. He is the uncle of Prince Archie of Sussex, Harry’s son. His paternal cousin is Princess Beatrice of York.
His maternal great-grandmothers were ladies-in-waiting to his paternal great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Prince William’s ancestry is (approximately) 35% English, along with 29% “Royal,” 14% Scottish, 5% German, 3% Irish, 3% French, 3% Anglo-Irish, 2% Hungarian, and smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Indian, Dutch, Danish, Welsh, Belgian, Swedish, Swiss, Bohemian/Czech, Russian, Polish, and Channel Islander [Jersey]. Prince William is widely believed by DNA researchers to have a matrilineal ancestor, Eliza Kewark, who was Indian, or of Armenian (paternal) and Indian (maternal) descent; if this is the case, it would make Prince William of 1/128th or 1/256th Indian ancestry.
Prince William’s paternal grandfather was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg). Prince William’s grandfather Prince Philip was born in Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece, although he was not of Greek ancestry. He was a Prince of Greece and Denmark, both. He was in the line of succession to the throne in both countries as the patrilineal grandson of George I of Greece, and great-grandson of George I’s father, Christian IX of Denmark. Prince William’s great-grandfather Prince Andrew was born in Old Royal Palace, Athens, Kingdom of Greece, the son of George I of Greece, who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was King of the Hellenes, from 30 March, 1863 to 18 March, 1913; and of Olga Constantinovna of Russia, who was born in Pavlovsk, Russian Empire. Prince William’s great-grandmother Princess Alice was born in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, who was born in Graz, Austrian Empire, and of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, who was born in Windsor Castle.
Prince William’s paternal grandmother was Elizabeth II (the daughter of George VI, and of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon). Queen Elizabeth II was born in Mayfair, London. Prince William’s great-grandfather George VI was born in York Cottage, Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom, and was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 11 December, 1936 to 6 February, 1952. He was the son of George V, who was born in Marlborough House, London, and was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, from 6 May, 1910 to 20 January, 1936, and Emperor of India, from 11 December, 1936 to 15 August, 1947; and of Mary of Teck, who was born in Kensington Palace, London. Prince William’s great-grandmother Lady Elizabeth was born in Hitchin or London, England, the daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and of Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Prince William’s maternal grandfather was Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (the son of Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, and of Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton Spencer). Prince William’s grandfather Edward was born in Paddington, London. Albert was born in London, the son of Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, and of The Honorable Margaret Baring. Lady Cynthia was born in London, the daughter of James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, and of Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham.
Prince William’s maternal grandmother was The Honourable Frances Roche (the daughter of Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, and of Ruth Sylvia Gill Roche, Baroness Fermoy). Frances was born at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk. Edmund was born in Chelsea, London, the son of James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy, whose father was born in Cork, Ireland; and of Frances Ellen/Eleanor Work, who was born in New York City, New York, U.S., to parents from Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. Ruth was born in Dalhebity, Bielside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the daughter of William Smith Gill and Ruth Littlejohn.
05/02/2015 – Prince William, Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge with son Prince George of Cornwall and Cambridge – Photo Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos
Sources: Genealogies of Prince William, Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge – http://www.wargs.com
https://www.geni.com
http://famouskin.com
https://www.wikitree.com
https://www.famechain.com
Genealogies of Prince William’s paternal grandparents, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Elizabeth II – https://www.findagrave.com
CNN article on Prince William’s likely Indian mitochondrial DNA line – http://www.cnn.com
Article about Prince William’s ancestor, Eliza Kewark – https://www.telegraphindia.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/12/race-monarchy
“Queen Charlotte’s features, as seen in royal portraits, were conspicuously African, and contends that they were noted by numerous contemporaries. He claims that the queen, though German, was directly descended from a black branch of the Portuguese royal family, related to Margarita de Castro e Souza, a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman nine generations removed, whose ancestry she traces from the 13th-century ruler Alfonso III and his lover Madragana, whom Valdes takes to have been a Moor and thus a black African.”
aren’t the moors of north african descent, more like the berbers and arabs?
North Africans are Arab in culture,it never meant they were Arab in ethnicity.Now although there were Arabs there.north Africa was Moors long before way back in 46bc.Arabs faith came in the 8 century.
Now I’ll be quiet
Islam and Arabs began to spread in the 7th century.
To Levon
My fault,thanks for the correction
To Levon
My fault,thanks for the correction
That boy might just have a bit of black in him,the mega teeth/maxilla like his aunt’s suggest it.I alwaysnotice it in even in the whitest of quadroons.But then many germanics further toward the north get it too.
http://images.2dayfm.com.au/2009/07/31/236370/CW-Prince-William-1.jpg
His mother had some indian ancestry from Mumbai (Bombay) via
her grandmother Ruth [Lady fermoy] her great-great grandmother Eliza was a born in and native to Bombay and lived without being married with her great-great-grandfather Theodore Forbes while he worked for the East India Company.This ancestry was later changed by historians to Armenian.
Why historians changed Indian to Armenian ?
I think so it’s because Eliza KEWARK is from an Indian family but lived in Armenia and it’s in this place she meets a Scottish merchant, Theodore Forbes.
Her surname isnt kerwick they changed that too to make her sound more anglo-saxon.
Biographers state that she was of indian descent and native to bombay,maybe she had some armenian ancestry too.
Of course, Kewark isn’t the real name, I’m agree with you ^^
But once, on internet I saw “Kevork” or “Kevorkian”, the last is a typic Armenian name.
I have a dutch surname that does’nt cancel out other ancestries.She was born in Bombay, perhaps her mother was Indian and her father armenian.
There in India/Bombay lived a whole lot of Armenians and English people at that time.. Mixed marriage between them wasn’t a rare thing. Anyway there is almost no chance that Eliza Kewark had an Indian mother, besides Eliza isn’t topical name for Indians but it is for Armenians and Kewark is just an Armenian surname derived from Kevorkian. Additionally Indian DNA sequences could have reveal that.. and no “corrupt” historians could have hide this.
“”no chance that Eliza Kewark had an Indian mother”
how do you know this?
has a single royal been dna tested,answer = no
She rather could have English ancestry (from mother’s side) than indian. They didn’t intermarried with natives that much that’s why i said there is almost no chance. Like Anglo-Indians, most Armenians left the city and the country for Australia, US and the UK.
So true.
reply to Sound_Soldier
No Eliza was actually an Armenian living in India, and he has Armenian blood through Princess Diana. They found all these old letters in foreign writing in I think it was either Diana’s parents house, or something like that, and they found out she had two Armenian ancestors from I think her mothers side. It was in an article about his geneology online, I read about it a year ago.
the amount of african in him is pretty damn small becuase the last ancestor Queen Charlotte was a mulatto of royal ancestry of Portugues descent. The portuguese royal family had a sect with moorish blood and mistresses who bore children who were moors (the black kind) , and if you look at Queen charlotte’s photos and read court profiles they always talk about her mulatto/african features- and how non english they looked and how she didn’t have their common ideal of beauty. Queen charlotte is considered the mother of europe because practically every european royal family intermarried after, therefore she is there common ancestor, but like i said the percentage is so small and she lived so long ago.
To OMG
That’s true it’s most likely low,yet we don’t know what was in his mother.However how much does someone need to see signs of black heritage.I mean take a look at the ethiopian mixed people in the other part of the site,their 50% and you can’t tell(except for bottom of the eyes)
i don’t think you can count ethiopians, since they’re not really sub-saharan african. They’re much more closely linked to arabs and mediterranean, so that might explain why the 50% mixed ethiopians don’t look very african.
To Aue
Sorry Aue,but Ethiopians are more related to Sub-saharans as Europeans like to call them.Also there are like 50 different tribes,and the vast majority have nothing to do with arabs or the Med.Also Arabs descend from Ethiopians not the other way around,as well as Meds who the Ethiopians mixed with.I mean it called Ethiopia for a reason(land of the burnt face or land of the black).Also Sub-saharan is just a name that Europeans came up with to try and claim North African Achievements,the sand never kept North and South apart.The Egyptians themselves say they came from the interior of Africa,which means Sub-saharan.Now I don’t think this happen with every Ethiopian mix,this could be 2 in 50 that this happens.You would be surprise how many west Africans mixed with European in the pass and came out looking completely white(alexandre dumas)for example or george herriman,whose parents were both mulatto yet he’s white.That’s why so many were able to pass as white.Just don’t know whose DNA will be stronger,So I can count Ethiopians just fine.
Shenjte Jesuzi ! He is mixed up. BUT WHY ISNT HE ALBANIAN
He isn’t Albanian because Britain had no ties with the country. Albania was part of the Ottoman Empire which is why it is over 90% Muslim.
Damn
And he just looks white wow
That’s because he is just white. Just different kinds of white =)
To Adriana
I understand what your saying,but if I’m not mistaken,isn’t Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz one of his Great great great great grandmothers?I’m just putting that out there ,because I know she was Bi-cultural.I know it doesn’t mean much,But most of the royal families of Europe have or should I say had African branches,although they will go out of their way to say otherwise
Yes Queen Charlotte had portugese ancestry, they have very high african admixture as they were the first europeans to dabble in slavery.
She certainly looked admixed and had the same african mouth that some of the royals seem to have inherited,princess anne comes to mind.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01125/princess-anne_1125957i.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlGAz_oOsBA/SbtB2l47q6I/AAAAAAAACEA/u5zFVfiFhwQ/s400/charlotte.jpg
she looks like my sister [mixed race] protruding eyes,pronouced face rounded off,lge lips, long nose but base is wide,fair pigment.
A description of Charlotte by her physician, Baron Stockmar,describes her as having “a true mulatto face”.
To Katie
You know better than to tell people the truth,that European royal famlies have black blood,shame on you
Many people beleive the Japanese Imperial family descended from Korea originally though many Japanese would like to deny it.
I would say its not hard to believe.
yeah. but people have been mixing since before slavery. Remember it was the north african moors who held power over the Iberian peninsula for centuries before KIng Ferdinand and Isablla even won their war. And portugal is sooooooo damn close to african, actually all mediterranean continents were that of course there has been thousands of years worth of cultural mixing. once again i state it wasn’t omething remarkable or a big deal like we make race mixing a big deal today. Africa/asia/europe are part of the “old world” in such proximity that of coruse peopel traveled and new about eachother. hell the majority of the Bible spans the mediterranean, east africa, and the western middle east and tells of peoples travels
not all of them deny it. Queen Elizabeth II actually recognized that connection. People must understand that racism wasn’t as big now as say 500 years ago or whatever- when people discriminated it would be based on you relgion, culture, nationality not just somethign as paltry as skin color. if you actually research history you clearly find the presence of black people in royal courts in the past-and why not, it’s not as if the world was nely create dand people just discovered diff. continents, it’s just that it wasn’t an issue and something to remark on. you just wouldn’t kno their race and. Racism is actually a new idea and developed from the exportation of slaves that were specifically Black, clearly King Gerorge marrying someone with African blood was common knowledge and royalty can get away with anything. At that level, race is not as big of an issue if you have that money, power, and were noble yourself. With that said
To OMG
Excuse me,are you saying that,FUZZYBEAR THE GREAT,does not do his research?How dare you insult me like.Say your sorry right now,and we will forget the whole thing
lmao. i actually enjoy your posts there’s actually truth to it i was just elaborating based on an article from the queen i read a while back ;-)
I don’t see an sorry here
J/K
its fairly easy to pass as white.
eartha kitt and her mixed race daughter.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqsi5rPmGxE/TC3b3WQGctI/AAAAAAAAATo/7CwA7VO_dYw/s1600/eartha-kitt.jpg
or google the actress Stacy Dash and look at her children.
It is quite clear that Stacy’s children are mixed. If you keep diluting the African influence then you will get people looking more and more Caucasian with each generation.
As far as Queen Charlotte, it sounds like it is possible she might have some African influence, but even in her, it is obviously very minute. I don’t think that we will ever for sure really know if she did have any African influence unless new information pops up to confirm or deny.
Same is true for my heritage. It is being assumed that my great great grandmother was Cherokee. However, I haven’t found anything to substantiate that claim (the assumption made by my grandfather). In fact, census data reveals her as being “white”. You can’t take a true American Indian and pass them off as being “white”. So, for me, I don’t consider myself to be anything but a bi-cultural mix of the many different European cultures with my main influence coming from the North of Europe (I have a splash of French and German in there). If people ask me what I am I skip all the small percentages and just go with my dominate blood which is Irish and Danish. Although, my research has lead me to discover that I also have a lot of Scottish blood in me as well.
To kim
It was very common for european royal families to have African bloodlines,there no need for new evidence,the old evidence tells you that.Black bloodlines were all over europe,I don’t know why it,s so hard for people to accept.I mean how do you think the avg dna is 3-8%?
Now for Cherokees,I’ve shown before that according to the census in the 1900’s,there were only 36,000 ones left.Of that only 2-3thousand were full blood.7000 black and white were adopted into the tribe,and the rest were mixed bloods(black lndian or white or combo of all 3).Now if your great great grandmother was part native but ID herself as white ,it might have been for a good reason.It wasn’t cool back then to be a half blood,so if you looked white ,you said white.Where do think that term(Halfbred) came from?White people weren’t very nice to breds,so why would you say you anything other than white?