One of my great aunts has, she insists, traced the family back a little over one thousand years and is certain we are related to every royal family in Europe. The wife is a direct descendant of William of Orange making the two of us 20th cousins or there about.
Someone said that more Americans have royal blood percentage wise than the population of Europe. The reason is that when second and third born and younger sons had nothing to do - it was cheaper to send them here than keep them there.