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The Rurikids of Russia don't count as "European" Royalty? I guess not. Neither do the Grand Dukes of Muscovy, who don't descend from Rurik: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mozhayski/teksty/ydna.html The interesting thing is that apparently both Rurik and Gedeminas were...

The Y-DNA haplogroup of the Capetians, Bourbons, and Braganças http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capetian_dynasty All we know is that a few STRs from a bloody handkerchief and one two SNPs indicate that the blood on the handkerchief was from a man who was G2a3-something, possibly G2a3b1a-L140...

What is interesting though is that Prince William and Harry's and their mother Diana's mtDNA ancestor "Eliza" was a native of Mumbai, but later her descendants pretended she was "Armenian" to make their ancestry more acceptable: http://thepeerage.com/p41284.htm#i412832...

Quoting a Nazi site? It would be nice if it were true IMHO, but no such luck. Maybe the point of that story was originally to embarrass the Duke of Windsor. Was Albert the only son of Ernst of Saxe-Coberg-Gotha? Anyway, Prince Philip Mountbatten who is William's grandfather tested, and...

G2a as a whole is NOT "Alanic" - how about testing living Bourbons? This is a very long-standing myth because a high percentage of Ossetians are G2a1a-P18. In fact these do not match other places where Alans lived, and G2a1a is apparently absent from the "Ossetic" Jasz region of Hungary. 19th...