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Would I have any Royal title in my name?

I was able to trace my family tree to the Royalty (Kings) of Scotland, France, and England. I was able to pinpoint a singular source for all of my ancestors to the Nordic invasions of the European countries. One of them being William the Conquerer from the House of Normandy. Does royal titles get past down through generations?

Public Comments

1. Regretably only through the legitimate line, otherwise I'd be Princess Helen. (How very pretentious of me!) I'm probably descended from James VI of Scotland and through him I may be connected to half the Royal and Aristocratic families of Europe. (Of course, I could also be suffering from delusions of grandeur!) Cheerio Your Highness.
2. No, you get so far back and you aren't royalty any more. A lot of people have some royal ancestry.
3. > DO royal titles get PASSED down through generations? Yes. That's why Prince Charles is a Prince; his mother is the Queen. After she passes on, he will become King. It goes to the legitimate oldest child or, in some countries, to the oldest legitimate male child. The younger children get to be princes and princesses, their children dukes or something, their children earls or something, then nothing. You might ask in the "Royalty" category exactly how fast titles deteriorate. Illigitimate children use "LeRoy" or "FitzRoy" as a last name, if they want to give themselevs airs. They don't have titles. 85% of the people in the world with English, French, German, BeNeLux and Swiss lines can trace back to Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Among others, that's many of the non-Hispanic white people in the USA and a goodly number of the black ones, since slave owners had sex with their women slaves a lot more than most people realize. If titles got passed down, you'd have to call them all "Emperor".