11 celebrities you did not know had been royal descendants

It sort of feels lovely becoming that Beyoncé – continuously known as Queen Bey – is expounded to a real-life queen. The Texas Dangle ‘Em singer is Queen Elizabeth II’s twenty fifth cousin as soon as got rid of, hooked up via their shared ancestor, Henry II, who dominated within the twelfth century. The singer isn’t any stranger to rubbing shoulders with royalty both – she shared a heartfelt assembly with the Duchess of Sussex on the premiere of Disney’s The Lion King in 2019, telling Meghan, “We adore you guys”.

The “Queen of Pop” is extra than simply song royalty – she’s in reality associated with Queen Camilla. Madonna and the Queen are 9th cousins as soon as got rid of, and are each descendants of Zacharie Cloutier, a seventeenth century French-Canadian who was once a founding determine within the Quebec colony. A grasp wood worker who was once a “bourgeois seigneur” – an individual of substantial wealth – Zacharie and his spouse Xainte Dupont have 1000’s of descendants as of late, and we are nonetheless hoping for a Madonna and Camilla meet-up.

He could have handiest performed a king in The Go back, however it seems actor Ralph Fiennes is in reality the 8th cousin of King Charles himself. The Harry Potter actor and The King are each descendants of King James II of Scotland, who succeeded to the Scottish throne at six-years-old all through the 1400s. Ralph informed Folks mag concerning the time Charles visited the set of the James Bond movie Spectre, revealing that his far-off relative was once “very fascinating” and “heat”.

Any other one in all Queen Camilla’s star-studded kinfolk is Celine Dion. The My Middle Will Pass On singer and the Queen are each associated with Jean Guyon, a Frenchman who additionally settled in Quebec, making the pair tenth cousins as soon as got rid of. She’s additionally every other relative of Zacharie Cloutier, which additionally makes her 9th cousins as soon as got rid of with Madonna – this circle of relatives tree has no scarcity of celebrity energy!

All through an episode of Who Do You Suppose You Are? in 2011, Johnny Depp came upon that he is in reality associated with Queen Elizabeth II. A genealogist traced Johnny’s lineage again over 500 years, and came upon the pair proportion a commonplace ancestor, King Edward III, who reigned all through the Medieval length. This makes the Pirates of the Caribbean actor and the past due Queen twentieth cousins, and despite the fact that they’ve by no means officially met, the pair in short made touch at the set of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hole within the ’90s, Sir Michael Gambon informed The Telegraph. The Queen got here using previous with Harry Herbert, the seventeenth Earl of Pembroke, with Johnny reportedly asking afterwards, “Used to be that the Queen?”

Former daylight hours communicate display host Ellen DeGeneres by no means were given the danger to sit down down with the Princess of Wales – which might’ve been a wonderful chat, making an allowance for the pair are similar. Kate and the well-known funnywoman are fifteenth cousins, sharing a commonplace ancestor in Sir Thomas Fairfax, a military officer all through the English Civil Battle, and his spouse Anges Gascoigne. Ellen discovered this truth out in a while prior to the Prince and Princess of Wales’ 2011 wedding ceremony, jokingly telling Further TV’s Terri Seymour that she had a “stunning outfit picked out” for the pair’s lavish nuptials.

The Princess of Wales could also be cousins with every other well-known superstar – 6th cousins with movie director Man Ritchie, to be precise. The pair proportion a commonplace ancestor in David Martineau, a surgeon within the 18th century who was once a part of a well known Unitarian circle of relatives from Norwich. Kate and Man also are pals in genuine lifestyles, with the Take hold of director scoring an invitation to her wedding ceremony to Prince William in 2011 – sorry, Ellen!

He’s extra than simply the inheritor to the Iron Throne – Recreation of Thrones actor Package Harington is expounded to real-life royalty. Package’s paternal eight-times-great-grandfather was once King Charles II of England, which means he stocks an ancestor, King Charles I (Charles II’s grandfather), with the present King Charles III – if you’ll stay alongside of all the ones Charleses, that makes Package and the King more or less ninth or tenth cousins.

Benedict Cumberbatch could have simply been performing as King Richard III in The Hole Crown, however seems he’s in reality associated with him. Benedict is the second one cousin 16 occasions got rid of of Richard, the closing king of the Plantagenet dynasty and the closing monarch to die in Fight. Cumberbatch’s circle of relatives connection earned him an invitation to learn a poem on the monarch’s reburial rite at Leicester Cathedral in 2015. The Sherlock actor is reportedly additionally hooked up to different royals like Queen Elizabeth II and Woman Jane Gray; he met the previous queen when she introduced him with a CBE in 2015, an enjoy he described to the BBC as “odd” and “nerve-wracking”.

Do you know singer Hilary Duff is reportedly the American superstar maximum intently associated with Queen Elizabeth II? The pair proportion an ancestor in King Edward III – the similar as Johnny Depp – whilst Hilary could also be descended from Robert the Bruce, who was once the King of Scotland within the early 14th century. This makes the previous Lizzie McGuire celebrity and the past due Queen 18th cousins, in addition to distantly associated with the Pirates of the Caribbean actor.

Descended from a Swedish noble circle of relatives, brother-sister performing duo Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal are nineteenth cousins of the past due Queen Elizabeth II via their shared ancestor, King Edward III of England. In case you are maintaining (it is moderately the circle of relatives internet), that still makes Jake and Maggie associated with Johnny Depp and Hilary Duff. Speak about a circle of relatives tree packed stuffed with each performing royalty and exact royalty!