Posted on 08/20/2005 11:24:37 PM PDT by restornu
Ancestry.com Reveals Prince Charles and Camilla are Cousins
PROVO, Utah, April 4/PRNewswire/ -- When Prince Charles first met Camilla Parker-Bowles at a polo match in the early seventies, she said to the prince, “My great-grandmother and your great-great grandfather were lovers, so how about it?” Today, genealogical research shows they have an even stronger bond, they are ninth cousins. According to family history experts at Ancestry.com, a service of MyFamily.com, Inc., Prince Charles and Camilla are ninth cousins once removed.
Prince Charles and Camilla are both descendents of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle. Prince Charles’ family history can be traced back to the Duke’s elder daughter Margaret Cavendish, while Camilla’s family tree leads to the Duke’s younger daughter Catherine Cavendish.
A second and more scandalous possible tie also exists that would make the soon-to-be married couple half second cousins once removed. It is believed that Camilla's grandmother, Sonia Keppel, was the illegitimate daughter of King Edward VII. If this is true then she and Charles would be half second cousins once removed. The half denotes that Charles and Camilla are descended from different partners of Edward VII (Charles from Edward's wife and Camilla from Edward's alleged mistress, Alice Edmonstone).
To view the full family trees visit
In addition to the family ties between Prince Charles and Camilla, Ancestry.com has uncovered links in other famous family trees including George W. Bush to John Kerry, Clint Eastwood to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Madonna to Celine Dion. Other royal family connections include Princess Diana to Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. This connection is unique because it is not through Princess Diana’s marriage to Prince Charles, but rather through a nineteenth-century duke named James Hamilton from the Princess’ side of the family.
In addition, Andrew Firestone, former Bachelor star and heir to the Firestone wine and tire fortune has been linked to Prince William.
But you don’t have to be a family historian to discover your own possible connection to the Prince and Camilla. Ancestry.com provides largest and most popular collection of online information for connecting families with their histories and with one another. With over 4 billion searchable records, Ancestry.com makes it easy to find the joy of a wedding day, the hardships of an ocean voyage, the loss of a loved one, and a true sense of your ancestor’s place in history.
Civil and ecclesiastical records are available from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Additionally, Ancestry.com maintains one of the largest historical newspaper databases on the Internet with searchable images of U.S., Canada and U.K. newspapers from 1786 through the late 1900s. These records expand your understanding of your family tree by placing your ancestors in the context of daily life. For more information visit
About MyFamily MyFamily provides the largest and most popular collection of online information for connecting families with their histories and with one another. The company’s tools, content and community empower individuals to find the people most important to them, and to discover and share their unique family stories.
Are you illiterate or did you just post in haste?
No! I am dyslexic but your unkindness is not going to shame me from posting!
There is room on this planet for all of God's children!
Must be some stiff, stilted British pick-up line that the rest of the planet can't understand.
I don't know sounds like it...
But than what's in your family tree!:) LOL
It's hard to determine my family tree. While some people agressively persue marrying into notable families and getting that surname, our family appears to be a collection of people trying very hard to get rid of their surname.
Oh well! :-)
GENEALOGY n. ... In the English-speaking world, all those who take up this pursuit announce sooner or later that they can trace their descent back to Edward III. This should surprise no one with a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics; there are probably one or two well-bred basset hounds who could also trace their descent back to Edward III. What is really surprising is that Edward III seems to be regarded as some kind of ultimate antecedent beyond whom the genealogist does not venture, even though anyone descended from Edward III is also descended from his father Edward II, and so on. The author can guess only that the prudery of the late Victorian age (when genealogy became a family pastime) chose to draw a veil before the memory of Edward II in view of the sybaritic Plantagenet’s bisexual reputation and appalling death (see impalement)..
-- Peter Bowler, The Superior Person’s Book of Words.
LOL! Good grief, what were you using that day?????
If you must join the johnny one note posters!
Now this thread on Geneology was not ment to be a place for the inconsiderate to vent......but you are one among many who have no boundary if it feels good do it!
so now what do I do to seek out those after they read all of the silliness going on here!
No, it's actally Monarchial code. Unscrambled it really means..."Hey, let's not waste a perfectly good mutant gene" ;-)
That sounds like it!
They needed a genealogist for this??! The old-fashioned, Mark I Eyball could have told them that.
It is fun to go back to serveral generation and so much is being harvest everyday of one family history!
You will read things that will make you smile, laugh, cry, or understand some of your mannerisms...some of you will feel so proud for those who enduring and had they not you might NOT be here today!
(Takes bow) But series, she did look tons better, maybe I'm a romantic at heart:^).
I know this. I'm making a joke. Take it easy.
You must be a Celine Dion fan.
To be honest I have little use for pop culture!
David Icke is part of popular culture?
We're doomed.
No one will be dissuaded by a few jokesters lightening up the topic. Anyone here as long as you should've realized by now that any topic that doesn't have someone hopping mad will make for a thread of 90% silliness, 10% seriousness.
And look at it this way - if we weren't tacking our posts onto your thread, it'd be buried by now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.