*London: Britain Queen Elizabeth *is a descendant of Prophet Muhammed, aMoroccan newspaper has claimed, attributing the bizarre finding to a study.
According to the Daily Mail, the findings were first published in 1986 byBurke’s Peerage, a British authority on royal pedigrees. The Morrocannewspaper has claimed that 43 generations of Queen Elizabeth’s family havebeen traced to produce the research finding that the Queen is a distantrelative of the Prophet.
The study claims Elizabeth II’slink>bloodlineruns through the Earl of Cambridge in the 14th century, across medievalMuslim Spain, to Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter.
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The claim is disputed by some historians, but the genealogical records ofearly-medieval Spain support it. According to reports, Ali Gomaa, theformer grand mufti of Egypt, also endorsed it.
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Queen Elizabeth II is the world’s longest-reigning monarch. (File)”It is little known by the British people that the blood of Mohammed flowsin the veins of the queen. However, all Moslem religious leaders are proudof this fact,” wrote Burke’s publishing director, in a letter to then PrimeMinister Margaret Thatcher in 1986.
The study by Burke’s Peerage suggested that the Queen descended from aMuslim princess called Zaida, who fled her hometown Seville in the 11thcentury before converting to Christianity.
Zaida was the fourth wife of King Al-Mu’tamid ibn Abbad of Seville. Shebore him a son, Sancho, whose descendant later married the Earl ofCambridge in the 11th century.
However, historians are divided over Zaida’s origins. Some believe she wasthe daughter of a wine-drinking caliph descended from the Prophet, whileothers say she married into his family.