[goldstategop]

Two Hollywood actress are cousins related through Robert The Bruce, their great grandfather: Meghan Merkle, now the Duchess Of Sussex and Hillary Duff. They are the descendant of the Scottish King, several times removed. Meghan Merkle is really is royalty with noble blood up her family tree as well as Hillary Duff in a just aired episode of "Who Do You Think Who You Are?"

Sometimes your genealogy leads to an ancestor you never thought you where descended from. Royalty is the ultimate surprise to some people.

[wmileo]

Meghan, Queen of Scots?

[ClearCase_guy]

perhaps the most colourful of all Scottish kings

I see what they did there.

[adorno]

Go back a few thousand generations, and we’re all distant cousins.

[guitar Josh]

Well played, Royal Family, well played.

[catnipman]

good lord, EVERY person on the planet with a drop of Scot blood claims descent from Robert The Bruce, myself included ... I kid you not, we have family tree books that do indeed trace some of my ancestors all the way back to Robert The Bruce ...

[Fungi]

So what? Meh.

[MrEdd]

Merkle and Duff?
Such a parcel o’ rogues in a nation.

[mjp]

Meghan Markle is descended from Scottish hero Robert the Bruce, it has emerged.

so is Hillary Duff, through Alexander Spotswood

[Trillian]

Everybody famous is descended from royalty. /s

[ladyjane]

The marriage will not last.

Even if she were descended from the Pope - the marriage won’t last.

[cherry]

If I remember my movie history right, Robert The Bruce turned out to be a traitor to William Wallace, didn’t he?

[txnativegop]

So what, I am a descendant of King Edward I of England.

Get over yourself sparkles.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yes, she is certainly royalty. Queen of the Tarts.

[clintonh8r]

....and I’m Prince Valiant.....

[A strike]

CAN NO ONE RID US OF NEWS ABOUT THIS PERSON ???

[Vermont Lt]

My sister did one of those dna things. We found we are 15% Scandinavian and 15% Italian. She was stumped because we thought ourselves Scot-Irish.

I pointed out to her that our descendants were only rape by the best invaders.

[RedMonqey]

If Ancestry.com and our family’s folklore can be believed, my father’s people are kin to the Robert the Bruce through marriage.

Our family
came down from the hills and fought the Battle of Preston (1648)on the side of the Jacobites.

They lost and those who were not killed or hanged outright was put on prison ships and sailed to america as indentured servants. They landed in Virginia and bought off their freedom and headed to Tennessee.

To this day our family has a virulent hatred for all thing royalty or authority or general.

[Vic S]

36 yo divorce that Harry was forced to marry to encourage Brits to intermarry between races. That’s my take.

[myerson]

Horsesh*t!

[matt1234]

Publication date is April Fools Day.