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BREAKING: King Charles III and the Hungarian President are relatives!
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Nobody knew about that surprising relationship until a Hungarian media outlet, index.hu, found out. King Charles III and President Katalin Novák share a common ancestor, Erzsébet Fekete of Nagyivány, from the 17th century.
President Novák was the first Hungarian president attending the coronation ceremony of a British monarch. The reason is quite simple. When Elizabeth II was crowned in June 1953, Hungary was under the rule of the most hardline Communist dictatorship ever led by Mátyás Rákosi. It was out of the question to be invited to such an occasion to the West even though Hungary had a President, his title was the Presidential Council’s President. At that time, István Dobi was that president, a cryptocommunist sitting in the Kisgazdapárt, Hungary’s biggest democratic party after WWII, winning the 1945 semi-democratic elections. Dobi helped the Communist takeover in Hungary from within the Kisgazdapárt. When Elizabeth’s father, George VI, was anointed, Hungary was a kingdom but did not have a monarch. Miklós Horthy ruled as governor in 1937.
The Hungarian President and King Charles III are relatives
Anyway, President Novák attended today’s ceremony not only as a head of state but also as a “secret” relative, though the latter information seems to have been kept secret. At least nobody mentioned that until now. Index.hu revealed that Novák and Charles III are distant relatives.
What is missing from the article is if she attended by invite. Or were any other Hungarians. I thought of that often while spending hours watching various UT outlets to see the entire Coronation. Later I checked in at my usual Utubers: River on the royals. Lady C. PDina. Neil Sean. justchattinSueMe. And finally Megan Kelly. Then I had to go out to mow the lawn for a few hrs. to get a portion of it done.
After mowing for this afternoon I will check back here hoping to learn more. How I would have loved to see Hungarian performer in that church!
Lady C always asks subscribers to email questions to her regarding topics which she should talk about. I did that with regards to the article. I hope that readers of this paper also do that to encourage her further. If she sees Hungarians as being an interested audience, a supporter of her channel, she is more likely to present historical or even current information of the ways that Hungary has a Royal connection.