How Prince Harry and Prince William Are Associated to Catherine the Nice

If binge-watching Hulu's The Nice has you deep in a Wikipedia wormhole in regards to the Russian royal household tree, you may need discovered that Princes William and Harry are literally descendants of Catherine the Nice, the 18th century Empress upon which the present is loosely based mostly.

Apparently, the modern-day British royals can hint their lineage again to the Russian royals, due to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was born into the Greek and Danish royal households, however his paternal grandmother, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, is the granddaughter of Nicholas I — making Philip the great-great-grandson of Nicholas I, the Emperor of Russia from 1825 till 1855. Nicholas I is the son of Paul I, who’s the son of Catherine the Nice (portrayed in The Nice by Elle Fanning).

Prince Philip additionally has connections to Russian royalty on his mom's aspect — his maternal grandmother, Princess Victoria of Hesse, was a sister of Alexandra Feodorovna, the final Tsarina of Russia. Again in 2007, stays of two youngsters regarded as Maria and Alexei Romanov have been present in a area, and Prince Philip gave a blood pattern to assist establish them.

"I wish to go to Russia very a lot, though the bastards murdered half my household," the Duke of Edinburgh stated on the time.

Prince Harry and Prince William Are Direct Descendants of Catherine the Nice Credit score: Getty Pictures, Hulu

All of this, in fact, makes Princes William and Harry, Philip's grandsons, direct descendants of the Russian royals (together with their youngsters, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, and child Archie).

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The royals might not watch The Crown, however perhaps there's sufficient of a household tree distance for them to get pleasure from The Nice.