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Bush ‘related to Churchill, Diana’

President Bush is related to the royal family, in particular the Spencers.  He is 17th cousins with Prince William.  Their distant relation was a man named Henry Spencer of Badby, Northamptonshire who lived between 1420-1478.

This is kind of interesting, since President Bush deeply admires Churchill and keeps a bust of him on his desk.  I’m sure Bush is enjoying this new-found knowledge.

Russ's gravatar Russ United States September 19, 2002

A few months ago I was watching CNN, and there was all this talk about some baseball legend that had died, by the name of Ted Williams. It was a big story and they just kept going on and on about it. I have no knowledge of sports nor do I have any interest in it, so for several days I was going around saying “who the hell is Ted Williams?”

A few weeks later I found out that I am his 3rd cousin. I still don’t like baseball.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States September 20, 2002

How are you related with Ted Williams? How did you find that out? Does that mean I’m 4th cousins with him or what?

Russ's gravatar Russ United States September 20, 2002

I am related to Ted Williams via my father’s side of the family. I hardly know anything about my father, let alone any his relatives. So I was very surprised to learn that.

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