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Bush, Kerry and royal blood.

by neo_cortex (neo_cortex [at] stopimperialism.be)
"Our research is not yet complete but my bet is that Kerry has more royal connections and that he is more noble than President Bush," said Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage, a guide to the British aristocracy.

"But both candidates have a remarkable number of royal connections and both are related to Queen Elizabeth."

"Kerry can almost certainly be traced back to King James I and to the bloodlines straight through the Windsor and Hanover families," Brooks-Baker said. James I, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, ruled England from 1603-1625 and is best remembered for commissioning a new translation of the Bible.

The message comes from Reuters and was not so wide published.
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On a website on genealogy is written next:

George Bush, president of the United States from 1988-1992, is a 13th cousin twice-removed from Queen Elizabeth II of England. Source: Burke's Peerage.

On the website from Burke's Peerage in the U.S.A. you can read next:

26 of the 42 Presidents are cousins to the seventh degree at most.

Publishing the genealogies of these significant people in history shows how closely related they were. Two-thirds can be l inked as cousins to the sixth or seventh degree at most. George Bush Snr. and Franklin Roosevelt have 15 cousins who were presidents. Gerald Ford and William Taft are related to 14.

36 of the 42 Presidential families can be traced back to England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales.

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