There is no evidence that Queen Elizabeth II was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad or his Hashemite clan in the Arabian peninsula, contrary to reports and social media posts that made the claim after the queen’s death last week, a historian and a British genealogical publisher was quoted as saying by Middle East Eye.
The theory claims that the British monarch’s bloodline joins the Prophet’s family tree through the 11th century Muslim princess Zaida of Seville, a mysterious figure who lived in Al-Andalus.
The findings, which have been shared by British media outlets since 2018 and resurfaced after the queen’s death, were attributed to Burke’s Peerage, a British genealogical publisher and an authority on the ancestry of the royal family since 1847.
Newspaper reports quoted Burke’s Peerage as the source of the family tree, which connects Queen Elizabeth to the Prophet after a historian wrote an article for a Moroccan news outlet affirming the findings.
However, Burke’s Peerage told Middle East Eye in an email that “unfortunately, we have no genealogical information relating to this. We were not the original source, even though that has been incorrectly repeated over the years.”
The publisher added that Iain Moncreiffe, a British officer and a genealogist, seems to be the source of the claim.
“It would be interesting if historians and researchers could properly investigate the subject,” it added.
Courtesy: Middle East Eye
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