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Did you know?
that the Princes William and Harry are direct descendents of James I of England (James VI of Scotland) not only on the immediate Royal family lineage side through their father Prince Charles, but also on their mother's side, Princess Diana. Therefore also directly descended on both sides from both the preceding Tudor and Stuart Royal Lineages....

Princess Margaret Tudor (b.1489 London)
-m- King James IV of Scotland (b.1473)
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Their son:
James V of Scotland (b.1512, Linlithgow)
-m- Marie of Guise (b.1515 Bar-le-Duc, France)


Their daughter:
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (b.1542 Linlithgow)
2nd marriage, to her cousin -
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (b.1545 Yorkshire) who was a grandson
of Margaret Tudor's 2nd marriage to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus)
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Their son:
James VI of Scotland, and I of England (b.1566 Edinburgh)
Crowned King of England in 1603 following the death of Elizabeth I.
-m- Princess Anne Oldenburg of Denmark (b.1574)
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Their son:
Charles I (b.1600 Dunfermline, Fife)
-m- Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon (b.1609 France)
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Their son:
Charles II (b.1630 London)
had no legitimate children, but numerous illegitimate children by different mistresses. Princess Diana was a direct descendant of Charles II, through two of his illegitimate sons: Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (Diana's paternal grandmother's line) and Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke of Grafton(Diana's paternal grandfather's line which is outlined below)

Charles II and Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine (mistress)
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Their son:
Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke of Grafton (b1663)
-m- Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington.
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Their son:
Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b.1683)
- m - Lady Henrietta Somerset (b.1690)
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Their daughter:
Lady Isabella FitzRoy, Countess of Hertford (b1726)
-m- Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (b1718).
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Their son: .
Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (b1759)
Senior British Royal Navy officer, served during the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars. Commemorated for his actions at the battle of the Glorious First of June. He introduced epaulettes to Royal Navy uniforms as a method of indicating rank to non-English speaking allies (ref Wikipaedia)
-m- Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave.
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Hugh Seymour and Anne Horatia

Their son................
Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour (b1791)
British Army Colonel / Knight Commander, Hanoverian Order (K.C.H.) Married twice, first marriage to: Elizabeth Malet Palk
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Their daughter:
Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour (b1825)
-m- Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer
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Their son........
Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, (b1857) Viscount Althorp
In 1910 succeeded his half-brother in the earldom of Spencer.
Liberal Party MP 1880-1895 & 1900-1905; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1892-1895; Lord Chamberlain 1905-1912
- m - Margaret Baring
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Their son.........
Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892–1975)
Served in the First World War as a Captain in the First Life Guards
- m - Lady Cynthia Hamilton, who was also a direct descendent of King Charles II through another of his illegitimate sons, Charles the 1st Duke of Richmond
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Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer & Cynthia nee Hamilton

Their son
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924–1992)
- m - Frances Ruth Roche


Their daughter:
Diana Frances Spencer, later became
Diana, Princess of Wales. Duchess of Rothesay; Duchess of Cornwall

(Diana, 1 July 1961–31 August 1997)
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Online Sources/further reading:-

Online:
* Directory of Royal Genealogical Data (University of Hull)
* The House of Stuart (EnglishMonarchs.co.uk)
* Mary Stuart Family Trees (World of Mary Queen of Scots)
* King James (VI &) I (Travel Through History/InfoBritain.co.uk)
* Descendants of Charles II of England (Wikipaedia)
* Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton (Wikipaedia)
* Lord Hugh Seymour (Wikipaedia)
* Spencer of Althorp (thePeerage.com)
* Cynthia Hamilton descent from Charles 1st Duke of Richmond (Baronage.co.uk)

Books:-
* Diana, Her True Story, by Andrew Morton. pub.1992/revised 1997
* The Story of Diana, by David Levenson & Trevor Hall. pub.1985
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