WI There are descendants of George III & Hannah Lightfoot?

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I've just watched the (pseudo)documentary The Real King & Queen on Discovery.
It investigates the claims of various families round the world who say they're descended from George III and Hannah Lightfoot when he was Prince of Wales. They all took a DNA test which in the end highlighted they were not related to George III's descendants.

But what if one of these families - the Rex family of South Africa, or Mackelkans of USA - was shown by this test to be actual descendants?

What would happen? Would the UK need to replace its Royal Family? Or would Parliament just produce a bill removing Hannah Lightfoot's descendants from the succession?
 
I expect no one would really care about the claims. We're all reasonably happy with the Queen at the moment, and anyway everyone in Britain is so poorly educated about our previous monarchs I doubt they'd know who George III is.

I expect they'd probably be ignored, though maybe the family would be paid of to not make a fuss.
 

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I expect they'd probably be ignored, though maybe the family would be paid of to not make a fuss.

what's the furthest back that you can be a scion of, before the Royal Family doesn't give you an allowance?

(ie, Augustus who was kin to Victoria?)
 
I'm always sceptical about these things. I believe they worked out what George III's Y-chromosome looked like by testing the descendant of one of William IV's illegitimate sons.

HOWEVER, given how promiscuous we know Hanovarian society to have been, who is to say that the Y-chromosome recieved from said aristocrat is indeed George III's? The only way you could definitively prove or disprove these claims would be to compare DNA from George III's body against that of these claimants.

A similar story happened when they tested the DNA from bones suspected to be that of Nicholas II against that DNA donated by Prince Philip. They only tested the mitochondrial DNA (which they would both have shared).

However, the scientists doing the testing could have removed all doubt by testing the Y-chromosome which would have also been the same in both individuals. They didn't. One wonders why... because one side of the family might have been embarassed?
 
What would happen? Would the UK need to replace its Royal Family? Or would Parliament just produce a bill removing Hannah Lightfoot's descendants from the succession?

in short no,

if we were to play that game then it would cause all sorts of trouble. For instance the current legitmate plantaganet heir to the throne of England (not UK, England) happens to be an Australian Farmer who holds republican views
 
I've just watched the (pseudo)documentary The Real King & Queen on Discovery.
It investigates the claims of various families round the world who say they're descended from George III and Hannah Lightfoot when he was Prince of Wales. They all took a DNA test which in the end highlighted they were not related to George III's descendants.

But what if one of these families - the Rex family of South Africa, or Mackelkans of USA - was shown by this test to be actual descendants?

What would happen? Would the UK need to replace its Royal Family? Or would Parliament just produce a bill removing Hannah Lightfoot's descendants from the succession?
Errr... But genetic descendence is almost irrelevant here. You would have to prove that a) George MARRIED her, and b) that it wasn't morganatic.

LOTS of royalty had mistresses (even misters:)), and out-of-wedlock births don't count. (Unless you just can't come up with anyone whatsoever who's acceptable. Or unless the bastard fields a big enough army....)

So, no this is totally irrelevant.
 
Hi,
I realize this post is old, but I am curious about something. In The History of Pike County (MS), the author, Connerly, a brother-in-law of William Guy, states that William is a descendant of Hannah Lightfoot and George III.
Could there be any truth in that? I have also heard a man in New Orleans also claims the relationship, but I know no more about that. Does anyone?
 
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