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HAIL King Ant – or Dec! As we told yesterday, the telly favourites discovered one of them is descended from royalty while tracing their family trees for ITV show Ant & Dec’s DNA Journey.
While it’s currently top secret which of the Geordie pair has blue
BEYONCÉ: She’s known as Queen Bey and it turns out she’s actually royalty too. The singer is Queen Elizabeth II’s 25th cousin, once removed.
JOHNNY DEPP: The Pirates Of The Caribbean actor is also a relative of our Queen. They share a common ancestor in King Edward III, and the actor is Lizzie’s 20th cousin.
PARIS HILTON: And so is socialite Paris – she has a shared ancestor with the Queen in medieval king Henry II and is her
20th cousin.
ELLEN DEGENERES:
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Ellen is the 14th cousin, twice removed, of Kate Middleton. An ancestral tracing company in Boston discovered the pair were related through nobles Sir Thomas Fairfax and his wife, Agnes Gascoigne, who lived in England in the early 1500s.
MADONNA: Madge’s ninth cousin, once removed, is Camilla, Duchess of Corn- wall. The Duchess and the queen of pop are both descended from influential 17th Century French-Canadian couple Madeleine Ernard and Zacharie Cloutier. The US firm who made the genetic connection also discovered Celine Dion shared the same ancestry.
DANNY DYER: Cockney geezer Danny got a surprise when he appeared on the 2016 series of Who Do You Think You Are? and found blood, they won’t be the first surprising celebrity to discover they are related to royals, as NATASHA WYNARCZYK reveals...
he was a direct descendant of William the Conqueror and Edward III, leading him to exclaim he was going to treat himself to a “massive ruff”. The actor went on to have his own spin-off show Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family, where he also discovered French king Louis IX was his 26th great-grandfather.
BROOKE SHIELDS: Who Do You Think You Are? also uncovered another royal connection – actress Brooke is directly descended from King Henry IV of France and Louis XIV was a cousin too.
KIT HARINGTON: His character Jon Snow was revealed as the true heir to the Iron Throne in Game Of Thrones, and in real life the actor is a descendant of British king Charles II thanks to his paternal grandmother.
ROBERT PATTINSON: The Brit actor is a distant cousin of William and Harry. And not only that – Rob, who starred as a vampire in Twilight, has also had his family traced back to Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration behind Dracula.
TILDA SWINTON: The actress has a regal air around her, and it’s no wonder. The Swinton family are an ancient Anglo-Scots clan descended from Robert the Bruce.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: He’s a descendant of King Richard III – and the actor played his ancestor in a BBC series. After Richard III’s body was discovered in a car park in Leicester, the king was reburied and Benedict read a poem at the event at Leicester Cathedral.