if im related to a queen, does that make me royal?

Question

i found out im related to queen mary of scots. shes known as "bloody mary" if im related to her, then wont that make me sort of royal?

ha ha! funny story. i asked my mom if im related to mary of scots or england and she said bloody mary of scots. and i did a little research on the internet and it did turn out to be mary of england tht was bloody mary. so i told my mom that shes the one from england! and all this time shes been saying its the one from the scots!

Answer 1

You are not royalty, however, your are of royal blood. However, are your quite sure of whom you are descended? Mary, Queen of Scots and Bloody Mary are two different people. Mary, Queen of Scots was a queen of Scotland who was executed by Queen Elizabeth I. Bloody Mary is Queen Mary I of England, who was successed by Queen Elizabeth I. Both Marys are of the same time period, though, so I know that some people thing they are the same person, however, they are not.

Answer 2

Well lets get a little history here.
BLOODY MARY WAS NOT MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS!!
BLOODY MARY was mary tudor!!
Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth 1 who died in 1603. And then Mary of Scots 's son King James 1 became king!!
and No you would have been probably the bastard child of some noble who was ignored and or killed for just staining the royal name!!!

Mary I (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots: French: Marie, reine des Écossais); (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14, 1542, to July 24, 1567. She was also the Queen Consort of France (Reine de France) from July 10, 1559 to December 5, 1560.

Because of her tragic life, she is one of the best-known Scottish monarchs.

Answer 3

You are distantly related to royalty; however most people in Britain to some degree are (it is estimated that no one in Britain is more distantly related than 25th degree cousins). In order to be considered royal under current laws you would have to be one of the following:
a. A child of a monarch
b. A grandson of a monarch in the male line (only the children of sons, not daughters- hence the children of the Princess Royal, despite being grandchildren of the Queen, are not royal)
c. The eldest son of the eldest son of the heir apparent - so if Prince William had 3 children now, only his eldest son would be royal until his grandmother died.
d. the wife of any prince under the above rules

So even if you are provably the descendant of Mary Queen of Scots (as an aside, Bloody Mary had no surviving children, so you could not possibly be her descendant), you are very far removed from the current family and would not be considered royal. You would probably be something like a 12th-15th cousin of the Queen, depending on the line of descent, and also probably descend from one of the Stewart family's illegitimate children *as do most of their descendants, thanks to Charles II* and so would be ineligible anyways.

Answer 4

Not necessarily.

BTW Mary, Queen of Scots was not known as "Bloody Mary", that was Mary I of England.

Answer 5

Mary I of England, known as "Bloody Mary" for her persecution of the Protestants, had no children, so you aren't descended from her.

Even if you are related to Mary, Queen of Scots, the relation is far too distant to count for anything.

Answer 6

"As she had no children who survived to adulthood, yours must have been a peripheral relationship"

Mary Tudor, Mary I, had no children. Mary Queen of Scots had a son by her husband, Lord Darnley. The son became James VI of Scotland and succeeded Elizabeth I as James I of England. His son was Charles I. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Charles II, son of Charles I became king. he had no legitimate children but a few bastards. He was succceeded by his brother James II who was deposed in 1688. James's daughter Mary became queen as Mary II together with her husband William III. They had no children. Mary's sister Anne became queen but had no children who reached adulthood. James II had another son, James Edward Stuart, by his second wife but he was not allowed to become King and was known as the Old Pretender. His son, Bonny Prince Charlie was the young pretender.

Going back to James I, it was through his daughter Elizabeth that the House of Hanover came into the British succession with George I after Anne died.

You could be related to Mary Queen of Scots through the Hanoverians. You could be related through bastard lines from Charles II or Bonny Prince Charlie. I think, also, there are one or two children of Charles I who played no part in the English succession but could have had some descendents.

Answer 7

in case you have the identify King, Queen, Prince, Princess, Duke or Duchess. then you rather are royalty. purely being concerning a queen who became into killed by potential of her very own people, because of fact they did not choose royalty to rule them anymore does not make you a Royal. It DOES make you concerning her, which has some bragging rights.

Answer 8

Probably really far back someone just married into her family but that's kinda strange because she had no children but maybe you could be related but not very closely I'm afraid so don't go trying to kick the queen off the throne yet lol

Answer 9

Interesting. As she had no children who survived to adulthood, yours must have been a peripheral relationship, and as it was so long ago, it's pretty diluted by now.
In any case, in order for you to be a 'royal' it would have had to be a direct descent from the occupant of the throne, and in Mary's case, that would have been an impossibility.

Answer 10

Nope. If you were truly "royalty", you would probably know it already. Having very diluted blue blood and some vague connection to an ancient royal does not really qualify you as such in the eyes of most people.