Moyang Putera William Sah Berdarah India

Moyang Putera William Sah Berdarah India

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LONDON: Ujian DNA mengesahkan yang bakal raja Britain, Putera William akan mencatat sejarah sebagai keturunan diraja yang pertama dari negara itu menaiki takhta sebagai seorang yang memiliki darah keturunan India.

Hasil ujian DNA itu membawa William kepada moyangnya yang ke-7 yang telah berkahwin dengan seorang wanita berketurunan separuh Inggeris dan separuh India bernama Eliza Kewark.

Belum pernah dalam sejarah seribu tahun keturunan dan susur galur keturunan diraja Britain memiliki darah seorang berketurunan India yang menaiki takhta sebagai raja.

Kini nampaknya William bakal memecah tradisi dan sejarah itu.

Walaupun catatan sejarah menunjukkan yang Eliza Kewark sering kali dirujuk sebagai seorang yang berketurunan Armenia, analisis DNA menunjukkan yang wanita itu adalah separuh India dan pernah bermastautin di India.

Kajian DNA yang dijalankan oleh beberapa saintis Scottish dari University of Edinburgh mendapati, keturunan Eliza membawa talian DNA yang unik yang dikenali sebagai 'mitochondrial DNA' yang hanya boleh diwariskan oleh seorang ibu kepada anaknya.

Dan kajian juga mendapati hanya mereka yang berasal dari sub-benua India sahaja yang memiliki keunikan tersebut.

A clear genetic line has been drawn between the Duke of Cambridge and Eliza Kewark, who was at least half-Indian and is known to have lived in the country's western region

Kajian sebelum ini ke atas 14 sampel lagi yang membawa keunikan talian DNA tersebut kesemuanya adalah dari benua India.

Oleh kerana genetik ini hanya dibawa oleh seorang ibu kepada anaknya maka ia akan terhenti kepada Putera William dan adiknya Putera Henry sahaja.

Ibu William, Puteri Diana tidak meninggalkan waris perempuan.

Akhbar The Daily Mail melaporkan, putera berusia 30 tahun itu kini dijadualkan untuk melawat India sepertimana yang pernah dilakukan oleh kedua-dua ibu-bapanya pada tahun 1992.



From mother to son: The DNA has been passed down from Diana's side of the family from Prince William's great-great-great-great-great grandmother Eliza Kewark who was half-Indian

Kewark was married to Scotsman Theodore Forbes, who left his wife and sent their daughter, Katherine, to live in Britain aged six.


Letters sent from Kewark to her estranged husband were discovered by researchers in which she begged to be able to see her children again.

INDIAN ANCESTRY: FAMILY TREE WHICH LINKS THE PRINCE TO ELIZA KEWARK


The wedding of Ruth Sylvia Gill and Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, at St Devenick's Church, Bieldside, Scotland

Prince William's Indian ancestry can be traced back through his family tree which reveals his genetic link with Eliza Kewark.
Kewark had three children with Theodore Forbes after he arrived in India, working for the East India Company.

One of their children, Katherine, became a well-respected member of society in Scotland and married James Crombie, a member of the family that manufactured the coats of the same name, in Aberdeen, in March 1837.

The pair had eight children including Jane Crombie, who was born in November 8, 1843, and married David Littlejohn.
Their daughter, Ruth Littlejohn, was born in 1879, who married Colonel William Smith Gill in 1898.

Ruth Littlejophn then gave birth to Ruth Sylvia Gill eight years after the turn of the century, who lived until July 6, 1993.

She became styled as Baroness Fermony after she married Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, in September 1931.

She held the office of Justice of the Peace between June 1956 and March 1960, before she became the Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and was invested as a Dame Commander, Royal Victorian Order, in 1966.

Among her children was Princess Diana's mother, the Hon Frances Burke Roche, born on January 20, 1936, in Sandringham, Norfolk.

She married Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and they had five children together, including Diana, before they divorced in 1969.

She then went on to marry Peter Shand Kydd.


Prince William and his mother, pictured in March 1983  and Frances Shand-Kydd , pictured at St Mary's Hospital in London, visiting her daughter Princess Diana while she was expecting her first child






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