An unexpected fact about Queen Elizabeth II: she had Lithuanian blood Names

The House of Rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania published interesting facts about Queen Elizabeth II on its social networks. According to them, the queen also had Lithuanian blood.

“Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1926-2022) had connections with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, among her ancestors were representatives of the Lithuanian Gediminai dynasty. Thus, Queen Elizabeth II also had Lithuanian blood.

Queen Elizabeth II is a twentieth-generation descendant of Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania, or a seventeenth-generation descendant of Casimir Jogailaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (1427–1492), whose daughter Sophia fled to Brandenburg and joined the Hohenzollern dynasty. The Hohenzollern Dukes of Brandenburg later ruled Prussia. The first Duke of Prussia, Albrecht Hohenzollern, was, among other things, a real cousin of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and Polish King Žigimantus Augustus (1544/1548–1572), who often visited the Vilnius residence.

According to Stephen Rowell, a British historian living in Lithuania, the Hohenzollern dynasty is closely related in the female line to the Stuart-Hanoverian dynasty, from which the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II came. Thus the Hanoverian dynasty, now called the Windsors, is descended through the female line from the Scottish Stuarts and the German Hanoverian dynasty. These dynastic connections are reflected in all the genealogical tables of Elizabeth II’s descent. Therefore, a direct connection between the Lithuanian Gediminai and the British Stuart-Hanover-Windsor dynasties can be traced through the female line.

By the way, the son of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and Earl of Wessex, in 2018. visited the Palace of the Lords and participated in the event organized there, left an entry in the museum’s guest book.

The community of the House of Lords Museum, located in the restored main residence of the Gediminas dynasty, mourns with the people of the United Kingdom and the entire Commonwealth for the loss of the legendary Queen and expresses its sincere condolences to the royal family and the people of Her countries,” states the post published by the House of Lords.

We remind you that Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 after the death of her father. At the beginning of June 2022, the platinum jubilee of the monarch’s reign – 70 years on the throne – was celebrated.

The Queen’s life ended on September 8 in Scotland. She was 96 years old.

When Elizabeth II died, her eldest son, Prince Charles, took the throne. He chose the name of King Charles III. His wife Camilla became Queen Consort.