Editing Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (section)

==Ancestry==
[[Patrilineality|Agnatically]], Harry is a member of the [[House of Glücksburg]], a cadet branch of the [[House of Oldenburg]], one of Europe's oldest royal houses. Harry's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth II, issued [[House of Windsor#Descendants of Elizabeth II|letters patent on 8 February 1960]] declaring his father to be a member of the [[House of Windsor]].<ref name="huberty">Michel Huberty, ''L'Allemagne dynastique'', Volume 7, Giraud, 1994, {{ISBN|2-901138-07-1}}, {{ISBN|978-2-901138-07-5}}</ref>

Ancestors on Harry's father's side include most of the royal families of Europe,<ref name="huberty" /> and on his mother's side, the [[earls Spencer]]—a cadet branch of the [[Spencer family]] descended from the [[earls of Sunderland]]; the senior branch are now also [[dukes of Marlborough]]; the [[Baron Fermoy|Barons Fermoy]]; and more anciently from [[Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton]]; and [[Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond]]—two illegitimate sons of King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]].<ref name="williamson">Williamson, D (1981) "The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer". ''Genealogist's Magazine'' '''20'''(6): 192–199; '''20'''(8): 281–282</ref>

Harry and his brother William descend [[matrilineally]] from Eliza Kewark, who is variously described in contemporary documents as "a dark-skinned native woman", "an [[Armenians|Armenian]] woman from Bombay", and "Mrs. Forbesian".<ref name="williamson"/> Genealogist [[William Addams Reitwiesner]] assumed Kewark was Armenian.<ref name="wargs">{{cite web|last=Reitwiesner|first=William Addams|url=http://www.wargs.com/essays/ethnic.html|title=The Ethnic ancestry of Prince William|website=wargs.com|year=2006|access-date=24 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181306/http://www.wargs.com/essays/ethnic.html|archive-date=16 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2013, BritainsDNA announced that [[genealogical DNA test]]s on two of Harry and William's distant matrilineal cousins confirm Kewark was matrilineally of Indian descent.<ref name="TOI">{{cite news|last=Sinha|first=Kounteya|title=Hunt on for Prince William's distant cousins in Surat|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Hunt-on-for-Prince-Williams-distant-cousins-in-Surat/articleshow/20611810.cms|access-date=11 August 2013|date=16 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928034026/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-16/uk/40006496_1_indian-dna-east-india-company-mtdna|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=live|newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Royal Revelation|url=http://www.britainsdna.com/royal-revelation|work=BritainsDNA|access-date=11 August 2013 |url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717092958/http://www.britainsdna.com/royal-revelation |archive-date=17 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Times]]|date=14 June 2013|title=Revealed: the Indian ancestry of William|first=David|last=Brown|page=1|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/india/revealed-the-indian-ancestry-of-william-ldvsjmc9w59|url-access=subscription|access-date=11 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627023321/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3790940.ece|archive-date=27 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hern|first=Alex|title=Are there ethical lapses in the Times' story on William's 'Indian ancestry'?|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/06/are-there-ethical-lapses-times-story-williams-indian-ancestry|access-date=11 August 2013|work=New Statesman|date=14 June 2013|quote=Although Eliza Kewark was indeed thought of as Armenian, it's not particularly surprising that she would have had Indian ancestors; the Armenian diaspora had been in India for centuries at the time of her birth, and even the most insular communities tend to experience genetic mixing over that timescale.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820173757/http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/06/are-there-ethical-lapses-times-story-williams-indian-ancestry|archive-date=20 August 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Ahnentafel|1. '''Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex'''|2. [[Charles III of the United Kingdom]]|3. [[Lady Diana Spencer]]|4. [[Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark]]|5. [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]]|6. [[John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer]]|7. [[Frances Shand Kydd|The Honourable Frances Roche]]|8. [[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark]]|9. [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]]|10. [[George VI of the United Kingdom]]|11. [[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]|12. [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]]|13. [[Lady Cynthia Hamilton]]|14. [[Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy]]|15. [[Ruth Gill]]|align=center|collapsed=yes|ref=<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paget |first=Gerald|title=The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales ''(2 vols)''|publisher=Charles Skilton |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-284-40016-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Richard K.|title=The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales|year=2007|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-88082-208-4|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/Product.aspx?id=14815|access-date=12 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210205411/http://americanancestors.org/Product.aspx?id=14815|archive-date=10 December 2010}}</ref>|boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc;|boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9;|boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc;|boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc;}}