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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: 2011 royal tour of Canada, Ancestry charts of the current British Royal Family, Engagement announcement dress of Kate Middleton, Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton effect, List of wedding guests of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, Pippa Middleton, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, Wedding dress of Kate Middleton, Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, William & Catherine: A Royal Romance, William & Kate. Excerpt: All people are descended via various racial or ethnic lines of the antiquity, but in case of most, records do not exist. The British royal family is one of the few families, for whom ancestry can be traced to many notable lineages of the antiquity. They can be traced from Saxon, Scottish (Stuart dynasty), Welsh (Tudor dynasty), Irish, German (Hanover and Windsor), French (Norman and Angevin), Russian, Frank and perhaps even Byzantine lineages. Saxon and Scottish descent (detailed)The earliest Saxon-cum-Scottish connections were through Matilda of Scotland, whose father was a Scottish king and mother, a Saxon princess. (However, the earliest Saxon connection was through her mother-in-law, Matilda of Flanders, who had descended from AElfthryth of Wessex, daughter of the Saxon king Alfred the Great.) The general descent through this connection, of the current British royal family, is shown below. Various special descents of members shown in this chart are discussed later. Descent from the Franks (detailed) George I of Great Britain had descended, through both of his parents, from Rollo, the Viking founder of the ducal lineage of Normandy. Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, had a descent from King Henry II of England through his daughter Matilda. . One established connection is given..