Posted on 08/26/2015 10:00:17 AM PDT by dware
FULL TITLE: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton revealed to be distant cousins as family trees show they share same set of royal ancestors
Presidential candidate Donald Trump may criticize rival Hillary Clinton regularly, but the Republican and Democratic front-runners are actually distant relatives.
Both the real estate tycoon and former Secretary of State are the direct descendants of 14th century 1st Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt and his third wife Katherine Swynford, according to the ancestry site MyHeritage.com.
Clinton claims the lineage to her 18th great-grandparents through the Rodham family of her father's side while Trump is related to her through his mother Mary Anne Macleod, who was born in Scotland.
The common relative means that the Democrat and Republican are 19th cousins.
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Oh oh, I did my tree several years back, and this means I related to them both too through my mother’s side, who also has John of Gaunt as an ancestor... BOW IN MY PRESENCE, LOL
19th cousins? I bet half the country if probable 19th cousins of either Hillary or Trump.
So Hillary is descended from William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy...as well as being married to William the Bastard, former POTUS.
Bill Clinton and George Bush are also distant cousins
Hillary must have got the cankle branch of the family tree.
We are all distant cousins.
Otherwise, i just assumed Bill and Hillary were 1rst cousins?
It would seem that 14th century 1st Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt was a rather prolific old gent.
Katherine Swynford de Roet (1350 - 1403)
is Mrs. Submareener’s 16th great grandmother
Katherine Swynford de Roet
Submareener’s 17th great grandmother
So we are both cousins to everyone. :-)
...so obuma and tranny michael are cousins also?....
Yee olde 6 degree of separation? I am a distant relative of an Arch Duke of Prussia on my grandmother’s side. So what? Where’s all my inheritance?? My wife’s family had a castle, if we knew where it was, we could lay claim to the gold buried under it from the crusades. I’m resigned to being just another working American supporting those who aren’t.
Go back far enough and probably find that if our ancestors are Eurasian we all share Grampa Genghis and are all “distant” cousins.
And Genghis is “royalty,” too.
Both are royal a**holes!
You laugh but I am going to give this b!tch a run for her money in a few months.
Meet Donald who’s built most everywhere
From Jersey’s shore to old Times Square
While Hillary provides the sights
Of pantsuits that are way too tight
What a crazy pair
Cause they’re cousins
Nonsensical cousins and you’ll find
They do not like
To give the mike
Back to the TV anchor dike
You can lose your mind
When cousins
Are this unaligned
No TV. No Major League Sports. Dinner only takes an hour. Ya know, there is one thing folks could do in those days...
;)
Personally this doesn't bother me. The only relationship Trump has with Clinton that bother me are his donations to her campaigns and Clinton Foundation. As far as GOPe. Go Cruz.
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