MAG GETS BACK
A FAN who swiped a Beatles issue of Life magazine from a library in 1968 returned it along with an apology and $100 in Parma, Ohio.
MEGHAN Markle’s slave ancestors and Essex boy relatives could be revealed after she was approached to appear on the US version of Who Do You Think You Are?
Producers of the popular show Finding Your Roots have contacted Buckingham Palace in the hope of ending the Duchess of Sussex’s “longing” to learn about her heritage.
The series, which has featured some huge names, uses a team of genealogists to comb through the paper trail ancestors left behind, as well as DNA experts who utilise the latest in genetic analysis.
During the show, guests are given their own Book Of Life detailing what researchers have found. A source on the series told the Daily Star Sunday: “Meghan’s family are so diverse. Producers know that if she agrees their research will take them across the world. “Whether it be the victims of the African slave trade on her mum’s side or the ancestors related to Scottish warlord Robert the Bruce on her dad’s, few families can boast such an incredible heritage. “Meghan has made no secret [about wanting] to find out about her past and spoke openly about being raised as a bi-racial woman. Her Book Of Life would, we think, provide her with a lot of answers.”
Meghan, 37, is descended on her mother’s side from slaves who toiled on cotton plantations in the US Deep South.
Her dad came from Irish and Dutch immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania.
One of dad Thomas Markle’s ancestors was George Sanders, who was born here in the UK, in Essex, in 1841.
The Sanders family could boast an impressive aristocratic line back to the Bruce and
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