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Two Royal Queens, That Wait! Are Cousins!

If you did not already know, most of the European royal families are interconnected and in some distant way, are all related to each other. For instance Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are cousins (you can read more about that in my blog post here). But the Queen has a cousin who is the Queen of her own country take a guess on who you think this cousin is.

Is it...

a. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands

b. Queen Letizia of Spain

c. Queen Margrethe of Denmark

d. Queen Silvia of Sweden


If you guessed d, you are wrong! Queen Silvia and all these monarchs except one listed above are related to Queen Elizabeth by marriage.

The real answer is c, and in fact, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Margrethe are 3rd cousins! Their common relative is Christian IX, who was the King of Denmark. His son, Frederick VIII, is who continued down the royal Denmark line of succession, and his daughter, Alexandra of Denmark, married Edward VII, and is Queen Elizabeth's great grandmother. That is how the royal families are really just one huge family, that rule over different countries. Kind of weird, right?

File:Elizabeth II.jpgFile:Drottning Margrethe av Danmark.jpg 

Picture of Queen Elizabeth by: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
Picture of Queen Margrethe by: Johannes Jansson

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