The Royal Family’s Strathearn Heritage.

Queen Elizabeth II is descended from Strathearn families on both her fathers’s and her mother’s sides.

In the fourteenth century, Maria Montifex from Auchterarder Castle married Sir John Drummond. Their daughter Annabella married King Robert III in 1390 and gave birth to King James I. He became ancestor of both the Stewart and Hanoverian dynasties and today’s House of Windsor.

In 1376, John Lyon of Forteviot married Joanna, Daughter of King Robert II. Six centuries later in 1923 their descendant Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the future King George VI. Their first child, born in 1926, became Queen Elizabeth II.

Across the centuries, many members of the royal family have been earls and dukes of Strathearn. Queen Victoria’s father was Edward, Duke of Strathearn.

Prince William was created Earl of Strathearn in 2011 to mark his  wedding to Catherine Middleton.