Ellen DeGeneres Related to Kate Middleton, Royal Bride to Be

Bev Cohen
Ellen revealed on her TV show this week that she is related to Kate Middleton who is scheduled to marry Prince William on April 11, 2011. Ellen started out joking by saying that she received a letter from the New England Genealogical Society and thought it was from her lady doctor.

But Ellen then proceeded to read the letter to her audience which said, "Our trusty genealogists have been at work on Kate Middleton's genealogy with the big royal wedding coming up. As we were doing the research, we discovered that you're related to Kate via a man named Sir Thomas Fairfax and his wife, Agnes Gascoigne. You are distant cousins - you're 15th - but cousins still the same."

Ellen has been joking for a while about whether she's going to get an invitation to the royal wedding in April. This may just guarantee that invitation. And it will certainly give her plenty of material for her show for the next couple of months!

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http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/11/kate-middleton-and-ellen-degeneres-are-cousins/

Published by Bev Cohen

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