Meghan Has Some Very Impressive British Ancestors
Meghan might have married into a British family, but it turns out the new Duchess of Sussex already had some pretty impressive British ancestors before she wed Harry; she’s the sixth-cousin five times removed to the great British prime minister Winston Churchill, and the fifth-cousin 13 times removed to none other than William Shakespeare.
Both of these relations are through her father Thomas Markle. Genealogists even claim she’s a VERY distant cousin of Harry’s, via an ancestor of the Queen Mother.