09 September 2022
10:22
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The late Queen Elizabeth II is directly relevant to the Bulgarian royal family. Simeon of Saxe-Coburg is a fourth cousin of the queen’s father, King George VI, remembers “Slaveykov Square”.
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–The beginning of the kinship in between the Bulgarian and English royal dynasties was founded in the 18th century – by the Dukes Franz and Augusta of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld. Two of their children have been Ferdinand, grandfather of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and Vittoria, mother of the homonymous queen of Good Britain.
One of Ferdinand’s sons was August, who grew to become the father of the Bulgarian king Ferdinand. Thus, the to start with king of the Bulgarian 3rd Kingdom turned out to be a next cousin of the English king Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria. The Bulgarian Tsar Boris, son of Tsar Ferdinand, is the third cousin of King George V of England. Simeon of Saxe-Coburg is a fourth cousin of King George VI, the late queen’s father.
Queen Elizabeth II’s fifth cousins are Simeon’s sons: Kardam, Kiril, Kubrat, Konstantin-Asen and Kalina. Prince Charles is the sixth cousin of Simeon of Saxe-Coburg’s nephews.
Prince Battenberg also has a connection with the English royal relatives. The Bulgarian prince is the brother of the late Prince Philip’s grandfather. The mom of Elizabeth II’s partner was the eldest daughter of Prince Ludwig Alexander von Battenberg (brother of Prince Alexander I Battenberg) and Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (granddaughter of Queen Victoria).
