The British Monarchy is grounded in the royal family of Wessex, including Alfred the Great, whose hero-worshipping-averse people have since forgotten where they buried him.

The great makers of history, as evidenced below in the companions of William the Conqueror, the great navigators, the prime ministers, and Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Plot, emerge from common people without a genealogy.

A large proportion of William the Conqueror's companions and subordinates were Breton adventurers, bringing with them the term "fitz" (son of), and dominating politics through the La Zouche family, and being the founders of the Scottish Royal family.

Virtually all elite Welsh, Irish and Scottish dynasties were co-opted through marriage with the Anglo-Norman dynasties of England, and it was this as much as invasion that united the British Isles.

No ancestors come from Bernicia, the precursor of Northumbria, or Essex (of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy), or the Christian kingdom of Hwicce.