Did you know? Gabriel Attal would have been a distant cousin of Charles III

Crowned heads media specialist, Histoires royales, traced Gabriel Attal’s family tree. Having been appointed Prime Minister on January 9, 2024, the latter would thus have … royal blood in his veins. Indeed, if we are to believe the data of the royalty experts website, Emmanuel Macron’s right wing will have family ties to the monarchies of France and Navarre. He would be a distant cousin of King Harald V of Norway, King Felipe VI of Spain and even Charles III of the United Kingdom, among others.

White Russians of Odessa

Born in 1989 in Haute-de-Seine, Gabriel Nissim Attal (Attal means “bearer,” a person responsible for carrying heavy loads, Editor’s Note) is originally of Tunisian Jewish descent on his father’s side. THE: Atlas Courier reports that on his father’s side he is the son of Yves, a lawyer and film producer, as well as the great-grandson of Eli from Tunisia, who married an Italian from the Modigliani family. His mother, Marie de Couris, came from a family of “White Russians”, a term referring to the Russian monarchs. Everyday life The cross adds that the latter baptized young Gabriel in the Russian Orthodox church located on Daru street in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Marie de Couris’ father and Attal’s grandfather was the son of Baroness Maria de Meyendorff. The latter himself had a great-grandmother, Princess Daria Galitsine (1761-1828), who was a descendant of the great ambassador to Persia, Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Galitsine.

It is from this side that the improbable cousins ​​of Gabriel Attal and the Spanish, Danish and British sovereigns arise. Indeed, among the ancestors of the said Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Galitsyne we will find one Ivan Baryatinsky, husband of Princess Catherine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. Royal stories then revealed that the latter’s family would reign in Denmark as well as Greece and the United Kingdom. And that next to this Becker, Gabriel Attal would thus be a (very) distant cousin to six monarchs: King Frederik X of Denmark, King Harald V of Norway, King Philip of Belgium, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, King Felipe VI. of King Charles III of Spain and the United Kingdom. Pictures on the news site show an extensive pedigree, which also attributes Attali to an “extremely distant” relationship with Prince Albert II of Monaco. In short, it’s enough to fuel your next social dinner.