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Gytha of Wessex
There is a direct line from Gytha of Wessex & Vladimir Monomakh to the British royals
- Gytha of Wessex
- → married Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev
- Mstislav I of Kiev (Mstislav the Great)
- → married Christina of Sweden
- Ingeborg of Kiev
- → married Canute Lavard of Denmark
- Valdemar I of Denmark
- → married Sophia of Minsk
- Valdemar II of Denmark
- → married Berengaria of Portugal
- Eric IV of Denmark
- → married Jutta of Saxony
- Sophia of Denmark
- → married Gerhard III, Count of Holstein
- Adelaide of Holstein
- → married John I of Hainault
- William I, Count of Hainault
- → married Joanna of Valois
- Philippa of Hainault
- → married Edward III of England
- John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (son of Edward III)
- → married Katherine Swynford
- John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
- → married Margaret Holland
- John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
- → married Margaret Beauchamp
- Margaret Beaufort (mother of Henry VII)
- → married Edmund Tudor
- Henry VII of England
- → married Elizabeth of York
- Henry VIII of England
- → daughter Margaret Tudor married James IV of Scotland
- James V of Scotland
- → married Mary of Guise
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- → married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
- James VI of Scotland (James I of England)
- → married Anne of Denmark
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
- → married Frederick V, Elector Palatine
- Sophia of Hanover (mother of George I)
- → married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
- George I of Great Britain
- → direct male-line descendant to King Charles III
- Thus, King Charles III is a direct descendant of Gytha of Wessex, making her one of his distant ancestors.
There is also a direct line from Gytha of Wessex to Ivan the Terrible
- Gytha of Wessex
- → married Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev
- Mstislav I of Kiev (Mstislav the Great)
- → married Christina of Sweden
- Euphrosyne of Kiev
- → married Geisa II of Hungary
- Béla III of Hungary
- → married Agnes of Antioch
- Andrew II of Hungary
- → married Gertrude of Merania
- Elizabeth of Hungary
- → married Ferdinand of Bavaria
- Sophia of Bavaria
- → married Grand Prince Vasily I of Moscow
- Vasily II of Moscow
- → married Maria of Borovsk
- Ivan III of Moscow (Ivan the Great)
- → married Sophia Palaiologina
- Vasili III of Moscow
- → married Elena Glinskaya
- Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) (1530–1584), the first Tsar of Russia
Analysis
So (apparently the only) "British Prince" who married into Kievan Rus' house was actually a princess .... (Vershinin-Rus.; "Pravda"-Eng.)