16th February 2013, 07:10 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:....My rough estimate based on an unbroken genetic progression is that there ought to be at least 18,000 living descendants of Elizabeth of York. Seems a shame that the programme didn't suggest how common the bloodline was....
Have seen the same query from genetecists online - also someone has queried how many base-pairs they were working from. Will have to wait for the scientific publication.
By your maths, if there are 18k living decendents of Elisabeth of York after 500 years, then presumably she and R3 were only 2 of 18k decendants of someone living around the Norman Conquest?...any of whom could have been at Bosworth - wonder if the spine condition ran in the family too....