A detailed look at Elizabeth II's ancestry and ethnic origins.
As a youtuber with a history and demographics channel among others, I have long been fascinated by royal ancestry which combined my two interests into one. After having watched a video by the youtuber Useful Charts on what Elizabeth II’s ethnic percentages would be if she took a DNA test, the idea fascinated me. However I was disappointed by the fact that he only calculated the last 10 generations and this unintentionally sparked the beginning of the longest project of my life. I decided to go on Wikipedia and look up all of Elizabeth II’s ancestors that I could find. After 2 years, I finished and came up with a full list of every ancestor I could find on Wikipedia along with their estimated ethnic percentage. Although the research was not 100% accurate, I had enough data to make the margin of error negligible and it is at most 1%. I was amazingly able to trace back 51 generations of her ancestry to Richomeres, a little known Frankish general serving in the Roman army from the late 4th