Why royalty is blue blooded ?

Answer 1

To separate them from the crowd.

Answer 2

In the Western world at the beginning of the last century, tanning became popular - it showed that you had the means to travel to exotic places and became a badge of wealth and class. However, before that, the opposite was true. A tan or darker skin was a sign that you worked outdoors and were therefore lower class. Fair skin was a sign of high station and a pampered life.

What has all this got to do with being blue blooded? Well, look at the veins in your arm. If you have very fair or untanned skin, the blue veins are easily visible. This was the case with royalty, being very high class and all, and was pointed out by an ambassador to the Spanish court in the early 1800s. It was he who first referred to royals as blue blooded and the term has stuck.

Answer 3

I was taught that the term blue blooded applies to the aristocracy as well as to royalty because in times when the peasants would tend to be tanned because of their exposure to the sun when working in the fields, the aristocracy would remain pale skinned and the blue veins which we all have would show particularly clearly through their translucent white skin. It seemed a good explanation at the time!

Answer 4

There used to be a genetic condition where the chambers of the heart would leak blood into each other. The unoxygenated blood would mix into the arteries, giving the blood a darker color. This gave the person a pale palor in the face, or the appearance of being blue. Hence the term "blue blood." The condition was aggravated by inbreeding between royal cousins.

Answer 5

Royalty is not blue-blooded.
This idea is based on the concept that being of the aristrocracy and royalty separates them from the common hordes.
Every family starts from the same basis, some achieving success, their children achieving even greater success, their descentants becoming, in the end, the holders of power over others.
The reading of English Royal history is like reading the Old Testament, filled with bloodshed and murder.

Answer 6

It has nothing to do with inbreeding.

In days of yore most people worked long hours, outside, in the sunshine and thus got tanned skin. The common people had to work outside, only the very rich could afford to stay inside out of the sun. The aristocrats, staying inside, got much paler skin. This, in contrast with today, became fashionable as pale skin became associated with richness and tanned skin associated with commoners.

Now, as you should be able to see on your own body, especially your hand or wrist, veins look blue. With pale skin veins all over the body become very visible, whereas with tanned skins they become harder to see, and thus the pale skinned rich were said to have blue blood.

Answer 7

Blue blooded is just a term to describe their aristocratic background. "Blue blooded" means anyone who is a member of aristocracy like royalty, socialites, and other aristocratic members like dukes and duchesses, barons, viscounts, and members of the House of Lords.

Answer 8

"In fact the whole upper class had just as red blood, but the veins look blue because the skin is less tanned because they don't have to work outdoors as the working class (mainly peasants) but live mainly sheltered by elaborate costume and dwellings -"

Answer 9

blue blood noun royal or aristocratic ancestry. blue-blooded adj.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: a translation of the Spanish sangre azul, probably referring originally to the 'blue blood' visible in the veins of the fair-skinned pure-blooded aristocratic old families of Castile (as distinct from those with darker skin, of Moorish blood or of mixed race, etc).

Answer 10

Blue blooded is a term referred to about royality because they marry thier cousins, and are very imbred, truly they are. They really do not have blue blood. However there is a family in Eastern Kentucky, Hidman is the name of the town, where their family has been so inbred that they truly do have blue blood and thier skin is blue. They are called the Blue People and yes, they do truly exist. Look them up on the web under Blue People of Kentucky. And yes by the way, most of us from there are related to the queen of england, we are her poor lost relatives, sigh. No, I'm not a Blue person, not related to that set, and yes there was some inbredding back in the day, but our population no longer holds to this practice and we are all safely bred out of that thank you.

Answer 11

their veins are blue, but their blood is red
they think they're better than you, but they're thick in the head.