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Brad Pitt “cousin” of Queen Elizabeth: the incredible relationships of royalty

Cousins ​​of princes, descendants of kings and queens or only distant relatives. In the realm of Hollywood there are actors who truly have blue blood. The most recent discovery, made by Ancestry, the most prestigious genealogy society in the world, concerns Elle Fanning, the actress who plays Princess Aurora in Maleficent – Mistress of Evil. The actress (like her sister Dakota) is nephew of the King of England Edward III and cousin of Kate Middleton. The Duchess of Cambridge, for her part, was a simple bourgeois before marrying William.

However, he could already boast a distant relationship with the British nobles Sir Thomas Fairfax and Agnes Gascoigne. Same relationship for the American TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres, Kate Middleton’s 15th cousin.

Blue blood also flows in the Scottish actress’s veins Rose Leslie, daughter of Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, head of the county of Aberdeen on behalf of the Leslie clan, and of Candida Mary Sibyl, descendant of King Charles II. Rose he spent his childhood, literally a fairy tale, in the castle family’s: “I lived a magical ten years at Lickleyhead Castle, immersed in the sixteenth century. The least fairytale part is the land I grew up in: incredibly cold and windy. Which fairy tale has as its protagonist a queen clinging to a tree trunk for fear of flying away?“. Like a real queen, however, Leslie chose herself a husband of noble origins: Kit Harington. The actor’s father is Baron David Richard Harington, his paternal grandmother, Lavender Cecilia Denny, is a direct descendant of King Charles II of England.

Many other stars have noble origins: Michael Douglas descends from Edward III of England; Uma Thurman is 20th cousin of King Edward I of England; Hilary Duff has among her distant ancestors, on the part of her father, the British Prince Alexander Shiftwood, son of Edward III (which makes her 19th cousin of Queen Elizabeth II); Tom Hanks he has blood ties to King John of England, also called Earthless John, and is also Queen Elizabeth’s 24th cousin; Hugh Grant he is descendant of two royal families of the past: among his ancestors there are both Henry VII of England and James VI of Scotland; Angelina Jolie, on the part of his mother, the actress Marcheline Bertrand, descends from King Philip II of France (1165-1223). Also Brad Pitt has a king in his family tree from his mother, Jane Etta Pitt: Henry II of England (1133-1189). In addition, the star is also Elizabeth II’s 20th cousin. It boasts the same kinship with Queen Elizabeth Johnny Depp. Brooke Shields instead he descends from King Henry IV of France, who is also a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth II.

Also Robert pattinson has noble origins. In the veins of the former vampire of Twilight Dracula’s blood flows. Second Ancestry the actor is indeed a a distant relative of Prince Vlad the Impaler, which inspired Bram Stroker, in 1897, the character of Count Dracula. Robert isn’t the first star who has curious ties to his role on the big screen. Few years ago Ancestry had revealed that Emma watson, who played the wizard Hermione in Harry Potter, is related to a woman who was accused of witchcraft in the 16th century.

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