Does anyone have royalty in your family tree?

Question:

Does anyone have royalty in your family tree?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I must be one of those Southerners a poster was referring to in an earlier response:

If I believe the undocumented family lines (at least past about 1800) that Ancestry.com furnishes me, I can trace my lineage on both my mother and father's side back to the Stuarts of Scotland and England, a lineage which ultimately leads even further back to Robert the Bruce, William the Conqueror, and Charlemagne.

Here's how:

---My paternal grandfather's mother's family emigrated from Virginia to Texas shortly before the American Civil War. About the earliest ancestor on that side of the family to come to America was a younger son of the Earl of Crawford, a Scottish earl who was a direct descendant of James III.

---My maternal grandmother's mother's family came to Texas from Kentucky shortly before the American Civil War, although the family also previously lived in Virginia (in the South, who didn't). One of the earliest ancestors on this side of the family was a direct descendant of one of the mistresses of Charles II, Lucy Walters. Charles recognized Lucy's son, who became James [Stuart], Duke of Monmouth. However, he didn't recognize her daughter, Mary, who married an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. A couple of generations later, their descendants also moved to Virginia. Since James' English descendants include Sarah Ferguson, Lady Diana Spenser, and Camilla Parker Bowles, I'm looking forward to the family reunion! LOL

Except for the fact that I knew my paternal grandfather family came from Virginia to Texas and my maternal grandmother's family (on her mother's side) came from Kentucky to Texas, I didn't have any idea that I had a royal lineage, although I certainly knew that I had Scots and English ancestry. Previously, my greatest ancestral claim to fame was that my paternal great-grandmother was the first woman college graduate in Texas! Does any of this make any difference in my life. Not in the least.