Abdullah,of Tajik and Pashtun descent, is backed by Tajiks.
VOA: standard.2009.09.12
Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart, " as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.