Is anyone here related to someone famous?

[IconicKitty]

I am not

I'm related to the Howard family

If this was me I'd be telling random people in the street every single day!

My extremely tenuous one - I have a cousin (of some kind) who was a royal mistress. (Not it's not Rose Hanbury. Or Camilla).

My best friend is related to a completely iconic pop star who is has been famous since the late 70's and is still performing.

Tracing my family tree and it looks as though I'm descended from Mary Boleyn (sister of Anne and 'The Other Boleyn Girl' of novel/film fame). If I can confirmed that I can go back to all sorts of interesting people.

So yes, I'm related to a household name but then so are probably thousands of other people if they can join the dots. Hope this isn't too outing!

I know this isn’t the type of thing you were going for but my great,great,great……… grandad was King Canute.

This is ridiculously amazing!!!!!

How amazing! I didn't know pirates had a queen (and presumably a king?)

Ha! No curses here 😁

By far the most amazing famous connection! Wow

She was leader of the O’Malley clan in the west of Ireland and more of a licensed Privateer like Francis Drake than a “yo ho ho and a bottle of rum” Caribbean pirate. She met Elizabeth 1 twice too.

The Uk population in 1524 was 2.3 million, so there weren't many people compared to today.

The population fugues from Henry VIII may also include Ireland, you would have to ask a stat/historian.

They don't. Or Scotland - 2.3m is the figure for Enand and Wales

Lots of people like to imagine they are descended from Robert the Bruce, or William the COnqueror, or some other famous historical figure.

Most of us with a British background probably do have a significant person way, way back along our blood line. However (and this is my field of study), proving it is almost impossible. Compulsory records do not exist before the mid-19th century. Parish records of births, marriages and deaths are patchy. You would have to be lucky to prove a definite link and back it up with documentary evidence.

Clicking on hints on Ancestry trees created by other people is not proof.

Please tell me you know the musical The Pirate Queen! It's about her :)

I.never see the point of these threads ,you get loads of tedious I am but I can't possibly say who.replies.

I wonder if we share ancestors?
somebody in my maternal.Grandmother's family allegedly had an affair with a minor royal.(generations ago)and had a child ,mother and child were financially taken care of but never formally acknowledged.

Tenuous one: my husband's great uncle by marriage's brother might have pinched the World Cup. Nothing was proven.

Laurence Olivier?

No but my cousin was shagging an England player 🙄

One of my great aunts was married to the brother of a British TV stalwart but they’re divorced now. I never met them.

I am Kim Kardashian.

😂😂😂

No, but my husband dated a famous female TV presenter for a while. And he's vaguely related to some royalty.