Queen Elizabeth related to Prophet?
London: A new shocking study sees historians saying that the UK Queen is a descendant to the founder of Islam - after tracing her family tree back 43 generations.
This claim makes the British monarch a distant descendant of Prophet Muhammad.
The findings were first published in 1986 by Burke’s Peerage, a British authority on royal pedigrees.
However, having been largely forgotten, the claim has recently resurfaced after a Moroccan newspaper said it had traced the queen’s lineage back to the Prophet.
According to their findings, Elizabeth II’s bloodline runs through the Earl of Cambridge in the 14th century, across medieval Muslim Spain, to Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter.
While disrupted by some historians, genealogical records of early- medieval Spain also support the claim and it has also been verified by Ali Gomaa, the f o r m e r g r a n d mufti of Egypt.
Notably, B u rk e ’ s publ i s h - ing director wrote to the- then Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher in 1986 calling for increased security for the royal family where he said that the royal family’s direct descent from the prophet Mohammed cannot be relied upon to protect the royal family forever from Moslem terrorists.
Recognising the connection would be a surprise to many, he added, ‘ 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.’ Burk’s Peerage was the first study to officially suggest that the Queen was connected to Prophet Muhammad.