The Scottish royal line for Rupert via this route is (dependent upon statements in _The Thanage of Fermartyn_): 1. James IV = Margaret Drummond 2. (illegit.) Margaret Stewart = John Gordon 3. George Gordon = Elizabeth Keith 4. Elizabeth Gordon = John Stewart 5. Elizabeth Stewart = Hugh Fraser 6. Simon Fraser = Jean Stewart 7. Margaret Fraser = Sir Robert Arbuthnott 8. Robert Arbuthnott = Marjorie Carnegie 9. Margaret Arbuthnott = Sir John Forbes, Bart. of Monymusk 10. Jane/Jean Forbes = Sir Charles Maitland, 3rd Bart. 11. Mary Maitland = Thomas Forbes of Echt 12. Arthur Forbes, later Arthur Forbes Maitland = Judith Mieumecks 13. Thomas Forbes, burgess of Aberdeen = ______ 14. Catherine Forbes = Maj. _____ Taylor 15. Catherine Taylor = Robert Sherson, Jr. 16. Caroline Jemima Sherson = Frederick Henry Alexander Forth 17. Robert de Lancey Forth = Anne Thomson Ware 18. Marie Grace de Lancey Forth = Rupert Greene 19. Elisabeth Joy Greene = Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch 20. Sir (Keith) Rupert Murdoch Amazingly, due to very compressed generations, it is also 20 generations long!

Starting point for Hebers: Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, Parts 5-7, Sir William Dugdale, pps 377-380 at https://books.google.com/books?id=FqJCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380&lpg=PA380&dq=eleanor+heber+alexander+nowell&source=bl&ots=a6I7M4HZeR&sig=4DvAjXlU4v4LudCeLNy6dQ_EtOQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidzo-KqNDMAhVJZCYKHaHnAVkQ6AEIOjAJ#v=onepage&q=eleanor%20heber%20alexander%20nowell&f=false. Doug Smith