Being a descendant of medieval monarchs is much more common than might be expected, say genealogists.
Josh Widdicombe found he was related to Edward I. But genealogists say it's much more likely than people expect
But he hasn't been the only example. Soap star Danny Dyer found he was related to Edward III, Alexander Armstrong was descended from William the Conqueror and the rower Sir Matthew Pinsent was another relative of Edward I. Using previous models of the numbers of descendants over the generations, he says as a broad estimate there could be two million people alive now related to Edward I. Because the records of most ordinary families would not stretch back that far, most people would not know about their link.
The idea of royalty is wrapped in ideas of being special and apart - but Prof King says the genetic reality is that we're all the product of centuries of mixing and merging, migration, social rises and falls, interrelated in many ways. Many of us will have shared ancestors. And if someone has ancestry in Britain going back to the Middle Ages, she says it's actually more likely than not that they will be related to a branch of one of the royals.
This would be someone rich, famous or perhaps infamous enough to be well documented and provide a trail for a family historian. And if someone has such a pathway, she says it's "fairly likely" they will bump into a royal relative. "I do know people who have been rocked by finding something like that. Personally I wasn't, but it did make me start thinking about identity."
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