I was recently reading up on the Canadian Royal Family on Wikipedia (Monarchy of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), and I learned something that had never occurred to me before:
"...As such, they are the distant relations of the Belgian, Danish, Greek, and Spanish Royal Families, and bear lineage from, amongst others, Arab, Armenian, Cuman, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, and Swedish ethnicities,[160] as well as, according to Moroccan and Chinese officials, respectively, being directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad and Tang Dynasty Chinese Emperors."
I had never considered that a single Royal family would consist of such a diverse mix of cultural heritage. And frankly I never expected (out of my own ignorance) a Western Royal family to be related to the Chinese Royal family.
In my mind the relationship only went so far like this:
Middle Eastern<->Southern European
European<->Russian
Russian<->Mongolian
Mongolian<->Chinese
Chinese<->Korean<->Japanese
..etc
Anyway! So my point in this post is in hopes someone can feed my curiousity!
I'm curious because I find it hard to imagine, for example, a French princess or royalty of some sort marrying a Chinese royalty, and moving into the palace. How would that relationship even work? How did they communicate back then?
I'm interested in learning more about the marriages and relationships between a European Royal family and an Oriental Royal family.
Any interesting stories, rumours, myths, or links, are all very appreciated
"...As such, they are the distant relations of the Belgian, Danish, Greek, and Spanish Royal Families, and bear lineage from, amongst others, Arab, Armenian, Cuman, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, and Swedish ethnicities,[160] as well as, according to Moroccan and Chinese officials, respectively, being directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad and Tang Dynasty Chinese Emperors."
I had never considered that a single Royal family would consist of such a diverse mix of cultural heritage. And frankly I never expected (out of my own ignorance) a Western Royal family to be related to the Chinese Royal family.
In my mind the relationship only went so far like this:
Middle Eastern<->Southern European
European<->Russian
Russian<->Mongolian
Mongolian<->Chinese
Chinese<->Korean<->Japanese
..etc
Anyway! So my point in this post is in hopes someone can feed my curiousity!
I'm curious because I find it hard to imagine, for example, a French princess or royalty of some sort marrying a Chinese royalty, and moving into the palace. How would that relationship even work? How did they communicate back then?
I'm interested in learning more about the marriages and relationships between a European Royal family and an Oriental Royal family.
Any interesting stories, rumours, myths, or links, are all very appreciated