It has been more than 400 years since the Bourbons started to rule the British Isles and pulled it to greatness..
Mary Tudor's tomb's epitaph included the lines
"Great by birth, greater by marriage, greatest in her offspring: here lies Mary, the daughter of Henry[1], wife, and mother of Charles[2]!"
[1] Her father is Henry VIII.
[2] She married Charles V as a second wife and became the mother of Charles I of England from her second husband.