http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5027891/Harry-Meghan-cousin...
They are both descendants from the Ralph Bowes...Harry's great grandmother was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (mother of Queen Elizabeth)
I am Meghan Markle's 12th cousin twice removed....I am Prince Harry of Wales 10th cousin twice removed.
I am happy for both of them! (sorry for the Daily Mail link...lol...I googled about the love birds being related and the DM had the graph on their being cousins.
Anyone else related to Meghan and Prince Harry?
This is her path as I find it.
Meghan Markle
→ Prince Harry of Wales
her fiancé → Charles, Prince of Wales
his father → Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
his mother → Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, Empress consort of India
her mother → Captain Hon. Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-Lyon
her brother → Elizabeth Margaret Bowes-Lyon
his wife
Meghan Markle is my 13th cousin thrice removed.
Prince Harry is my 11th cousin 2x removed.
President Obama is my 13th cousin 5x removed.
President George W Bush is 13th cousin 2x removed.
Elvis Aron Presley is my 14th cousin 2x removed.
Ben Affleck is my 14th cousin 2x removed.
Justin Randall Timberlake is my 14th cousin 4x removed.
Can someone explain to me why so many celebrities, politicians and royalty are all related? It is interesting that I am also in this category. Is there a name for this type of lineage?
Re: Can someone explain to me why so many celebrities, politicians and royalty are all related? It is interesting that I am also in this category. Is there a name for this type of lineage?
I’m not sure of the proper description but I understand the phenomenon, it applies to Americans with Colonial ancestry.
There weren’t that many to marry. :)
Private User you might be interested in this article by Mark Humphrys. He discusses different ways to find our MRCA (most recent common ancestor) and who our MRCA common ancestor might be.
http://humphrysfamilytree.com/ca.html
Quite likely everyone in the West descends from Charlemagne, c. 800 AD.
Quite likely almost everyone in the world descends from Confucius, c. 500 BC.
Prince Harry is my 12th cousin four times removed.
Meghan Markle is possibly my 15th cousin twice removed.
Not according to his birth certificate, the sympathy card from his burial and so on of official documents.
https://media.geni.com/p13/58/be/1c/d3/5344483c3027e106/kiz55wac_or...
@Rachel Meghan Markle
I found that Meghan Markle is Prince Harry's 12th cousin once removed. This was found before her "fiancee" relationship was added to Geni
She is also the 22nd great-grand-daughter of King John "Lackland" of England and 33rd great-grand-daughter of Charlemagne.
All the Presidents of the USA, up to and including B.H. Obama, can trace a direct line back to King John.
If you can stretch your beliefs and assume that the relationships in antiquity are genuine, then she is also the 78th great-grand-daughter of Adam of Eden