THE GENEALOGY OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4142, 30 June 1874, Page 3

THE GENEALOGY OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH.

Writing to the editor of the Daily News , “ Scoto-Celt” says : —“ It does not seem to he generally known that the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Edinburgh are both the descendants of Mary Stuart. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Bnmswick-Luneburg, and afterwards Elector of Hanover, married Sophia, the daughter of the unfortunate Frederick, Elector of the Palatinate, and of Elizabeth, James the First of England’s daughter. Of Sophia’s children, one was he who, as George First, ascended the throne of England, and another was Sophia Charlotte, that became the wife of Frederick First, who, after being Elector of Brandenburg, assumed, in the first month of the first year of the eighteenth century, the title of King. Frederick First’s son, Frederick William First, married his cousin, Sophia Dorothea, the sister of George Second of England, and had by her, besides Frederick the Great, and other children, Augustus William, the father of Frederick William Second, Frederick the Great’s successor. Frederick William Second was succeeded by his son, Frederick William Third, who, in his turn, was succeeded by his son Frederick William Fourth, whose successor was his brother, the present Emperor of Germany. Nicholas, the brother of the Russian Emperor, Alexander First, and ultimately himself Emperor, married in 1817, Charlotte, the eldest daughter of the Prussian King, Frederick William the Third. In the children of Nicholas, through this marriage, the (Hanovcrianised) blood of the Stuarts blends with the blood of the Hohenzollerns and the Romanoffs (female line). The Duchess Marie is the daughter of one of those children, the Czar Alexander Second. As there is what may bo called a Stuart kinship between the Duke and the Duchess of Edinburgh, it is unnecessary to say that exactly the same kinship exists between the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of Germany.