Very few minutes passed from the moment the queen’s death was announced Elizabeth II of England until Philip VI sent a telegram of condolences to the British Royal House, with whom he has a relationship very close. The Bourbon had just lost his “Aunt Lilibeth”as he used to affectionately call her.
— House of SM the King (@CasaReal) September 8, 2022
But was Elizabeth II really the aunt of Felipe VI? Below we explain what relationship there was between the two.
To do this, we have to go back to the time when the queen victoria of the united kingdom (1819-1901). She had nine children and 42 grandchildren, which is why she ended up baptized as the “grandmother of Europe & rdquor ;.
His ninth daughter was Beatrice from the UK, (1857-1944). This she had, in 1887, her second daughter: Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), who ended up being queen of Spain after marrying the king Alfonso XIII (1886-1941), who had to give up the throne after the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931.
Victoria Eugenia and Alfonso XIII had six children, one of them John of Bourbon (1913-1993), also known as the Count of Barcelona. He never came to reign, but the son he had with his cousin and his wife María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleans did: John Charles Ifather of the current king of Spain Philip VI.
This explains why Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is great-great-grandmother of King Felipe VI. But it turns out She is also the great-great-grandmother of the late Elizabeth II.for the following reason:
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Another of the nine children that Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom had was Edward VII (1841-1910), who was the heir to the throne of the Anglo-Saxon country. He had as a son George V (1865-1936), who was the next monarch of the United Kingdom and father of the recently deceased Elizabeth II (1926-2022).
Thus, it was Queen Victoria who, in the 19th century, ended up making Elizabeth II and Felipe VI become distant cousins. Although they are not aunt and nephew, they do have a family background in common.