King Charles III is descended from the Prophet Muhammad, per Burke’s Peerage, an authority on British royal pedigree. In 1986, Burke’s traced the ancestry of His Majesty’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, forty three generations and concluded she was descended from the founder of Islam. Below are some interesting facts about the unlikely link between Charles III’s Prophet Muhammad descent.
King Charles III’s Prophet Muhammad Ancestry
Based on Burke’s Peerage’s research, the bloodline of King Charles III runs through a fourteenth century Earl, to medieval Spain. At the time, most of the Iberian Peninsula was ruled by the Muslims. From Spain, Charles’ bloodline continues on to the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter, Fatima.Those findings were supported by records from Middle Ages Spain, which in turn have been verified by a grand mufti – the highest Islamic religious scholar – of Egypt. When Burke’s reported on its research during the reign of Charles III’s mother, it noted that:
“It is little known by the British people that the blood of Mohammed flows in the veins of the queen. However, all Moslem religious leaders are proud of this fact”. In a letter to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Burke’s cautioned that the queen’s bloodline would not protect her from Islamic radicals. As they put it in a letter to the Prime Minister: “The royal family’s direct descent from the prophet Mohammed cannot be relied upon to protect the royal family forever from Moslem terrorists”.
A Medieval Spain Link
The key link between the line of Islam’s founder and that of the British royal family is a medieval Muslim princess who fled to the Christian kingdom of Castile. In 1023, Abu al Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima, became ruler of Seville. By the early eleventh century, the once-united Islamic Caliphate of the Iberian Peninsula had broken apart into petty kingdoms known as taifas, many of them at one another’s throats.
What followed was generations of chaos, wars, and civil strife. In 1091 the Almoravids, a Berber Muslim dynasty from Morocco invaded Muslim Spain, and Abu al Qasim’s grandson, al Mu’tamid ibn Abbas, lost his throne. His daughter Zaida fled Seville, and took refuge in the Christian kingdom of Castile. There, she became a mistress of its ruler, King Alfonoso VI. She eventually converted to Christianity, and took the name Isabella. When Alfonso’s sickly wife died, he married Zaida, and she bore him three children.
The British Royal Family’s Links to Mecca
Two centuries after Zaida hooked up with King Alfonso VI, Maria de Padilla, a descendant of Zaida and Alfonso, became the mistress of King Pedro “The Cruel” of Castile. She bore him four children, and two daughters, Constance and Isabella, married sons of King Edward III of England. Constance married Prince John of Gaunt, and became Duchess of Lancaster. Isabella married John of Gaunt’s younger brother Edmund of Langley, and became Duchess of York. Isabella bore Edmund Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge.
He in turn became the grandfather of kings Edward IV and Richard III. That made him an ancestor of the Hanoverian line from which Queen Elizabeth II is descended. As it stands at present, the queen’s official title is Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. It seems that if she so wished, Her Majesty could add something along the lines of “and Direct Descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, Founder of Islam”.
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Some Sources & Further Reading
Economist, The, April 7th, 2018 – Muslims Consider Queen Elizabeth’s Ties to the Prophet Muhammad
History Halls – The Disturbed Man Who Broke Into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
Times, The, April 12th, 2018 – The Queen May Be a Child of the Prophet Muhammad
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