Saturday September 10, 2022 the United Kingdom will officially have a new sovereign. Charles III, son of Elizabeth II, who died Thursday September 8 in Scotland, will be officially proclaimed by the Accession Council. A new king, whose tenth generation great-grandmother was born in the Lower Rhine.
Alsatian origins on his father’s side
It is from his father, Prince Philip, who died on April 9, 2021, that King Charles III holds his very distant Alsatian origins. Philip de Mountbatten is indeed the son of Prince André of Greece, and the Princess of Battenberg. As her name suggests, Philip’s mother (and therefore Charles III’s grandmother) came from a German princely family.
Going up the family tree, we fall, tenth degree (Charles being the 1st) on the Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg, born on May 2, 1700 in … Bouxwiller, in the Bas-Rhin.
– Attributed to Georg Desmarées
Other outstanding personalities, such as former US President Barack Obama, or the British author JK Rowling, also have ancestors of Alsatian origin.