Boris Johnson direct descendant of King of England

[the all seeing i]

Hello everyone

It's my first post so please be gentle with me.

Did anyone see BBCs Who do you think you are?

It would appear that Boris is descended from King George II

I actually laughed out loud, it's starting to get slightly ludicrous.

As the man says
"Just a coincidence, nothing to worry about!"

[upsetbrit]

Thanks for letting us know. It's not the first time that the BBC has had a bloodline related story. They recently told about Bush, Angelina, Madonna etc. being distantly related if i remember right. It was a few months back... slap me with a wet fish if i'm wrong.

[notthisshitagain]

Thanks for letting us know. It's not the first time that the BBC has had a bloodline related story. They recently told about Bush, Angelina, Madonna etc. being distantly related if i remember right. It was a few months back... slap me with a wet fish if i'm wrong.

New York (ANI): If Barrack Obama becomes the next US Prez, then actor Brad Pitt would have a distant cousin in the White House and if Hillary Clinton gets the vote, then Angelina Jolie will have a distant cousin in office, say genealogists.

According to researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt while Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Alanis Morissette, and Celine Dion. The researchers found that Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769.

Clinton and Jolie, meanwhile, are ninth cousins, twice removed because they are both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.


"When you get back into your ancestry, you eventually find that you're related to lots of people," the New York Daily News quoted genealogist Christopher Child, who guided the presidential research for the New England Historic Genealogical Society, as saying. "Presidential candidates are no exception," he added.

The study was based entirely on vital records kept by cities, counties and towns. Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette, the research found. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. Presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins.

Meanwhile, Republican Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain is a sixth cousin of First Lady Laura Bush. "It shows that lots of different people can be related; people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said. Obama has the most prolific presidential lineage, featuring Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, as well as Gerald Ford, Harry S Truman and James Madison.

http://entertainment.oneindia.in/hollywood/top-stories/scoop/2008/jolie-pitt-related-clinton-obama-260308.html

[steppewar]

Skeptics argue that everyone is distantly related to royalty in some way.

Yes this is true if you use the word "distantly". If you use this word you can legitimately say that you are related to a banana as you share 93% of its DNA.

However, only a microscopic % of the population can claim that George the 2nd was their actual direct ancestral Grandad X8 Greats.

Even Boris Johnson said he worked out that 1024 other people in the world can also claim this.

Well, 6.7 billion divided by 1024 means that one in 6,542,968 people in the world can claim this.

This is 0.0000153 of the world's population.

Oh, it's just a coincidence. Family bloodlines don't really rule the world!

[notthisshitagain]

Skeptics argue that everyone is distantly related to royalty in some way.


Lol, that's exactly what someone replied to me when I told him about the bloodlines... :( oh well.
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/crazyassferret/08.gif

[magicmerlin]

This is 0.0000153 of the world's population.

Exactly - and it just so happens that 99% of that 0.0000153 have made their way as royal spouses, politicians, presidents, prime ministers, army chiefs etc.