The reigning royals do actually have traceable lineages back to the French royal house. Jeanne d'Angouleme a bastard half sister of Francois I of France became the mother of Jacqueline de Longwy she was premiere dame d'honneur of Catherine de Medici but also the mother of Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier. Charlotte descended through both her parents from the Capetians.Her father's line legitimate her mother's extra marital.
Charlotte's oldest daughter Louise Juliana of Nassau married Frederik IV of the Palatinate. Their son Frederik V married Elisabeth Stuart and the became the winter king and queen of Bohemia. Their youngest daughter Sophia was the mother of George I of Great-Britain.
Louise Juliana's daughter Elisabeth Charlotte married the elector of Brandenburg. Their son Frederik William was the great elector of Brandenburg and father to King Frederik I in Prussia.
His sisters married into the Kettler dynasty of Courland and the house of Hesee-Kassel. Both sisters were grandmothers to Maria Louisa of Hesse-Kassel. She married another relative: Johan Willem Friso of Nassau-Dietz the universal heir of William III of Orange. The couple are the ancestors to all hereditary reigning monarchs in Europe. And this is only one example of the many lines that go back to the Capetians, but also the Viscontis of Milan, ancient Russian rulers, viking monarchs, etc.
And everyone of European descent is supposedly descended from Charlemagne.
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