Queen Elizabeth II 'is a descendant of Prophet Muhammad'

The claims have come about after reports her bloodline leads to Muslim Spain



The Queen is a distant relative of the Prophet Muhammad - according to claims by some historians.

The claims have come about after reports her bloodline leads to Muslim Spain.

This comes after historians have gone through no less than 43 generations of her family tree.

These findings have been published in Moroccan newspaper Al-Ousboue, suggesting her bloodline runs through the Earl of Cambridge in the 14th Century and then across medieval Muslim Spain, reports the Economist .

However, similar claims have been mooted by experts before - and are contradicted by other historians.

Writer Abdelhamid Al-Aouni, who wrote the Moroccan article, states: "It builds a bridge between our two religions and kingdoms".

The claims were first made back in 1986 by royal genealogy experts Burke’s Peerage, reports The Mirror.

They claimed the Queen is a descendant of a Muslim princess called Zaida, who was forced to flee her home town of Seville.

She converted to Christianity and one of her descendants later married the Earl of Cambridge in the 11th Century, reports the Economist.

I wonder what kind of remark Prince Phillip will make at that.