While American actress Meghan Markle is known to have come from far humbler beginnings than her now fiancé Prince Harry — it appears that the couple may be more closely connected than we first thought.

A genealogical investigation by The Mail on Sunday found that the couple are in fact distant cousins — related through a 15th Century English ancestor of the Queen Mother, the High Sheriff of County Durham Ralph Bowes, whose family seat was Streatlam Castle.

https://www.americanancestors.org/Royal-Ancestry-of-Meghan-Markle.aspx


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