12th March 2013, 10:29 AM
[quote=kevin wooldridge]Absolutely right. One wonders why they didn't approach the British Royal family - perhaps because they might discover not, was all it was thought to be..!! QUOTE]
The current royal family is descended from the House of Orange and the House of Bourbon, two of Europe's tastiest houses. They are only distantly related to Richard III, last of the house of Plantagenet. It all gets a bit switched about in the 17th century http://www.britroyals.com/stuart.htm
A negative DNA match could proably be taken not to mean anything, wheras there was a paper trail leading to the relative in Canada which might indicate how close of a match to suggest.
The current royal family is descended from the House of Orange and the House of Bourbon, two of Europe's tastiest houses. They are only distantly related to Richard III, last of the house of Plantagenet. It all gets a bit switched about in the 17th century http://www.britroyals.com/stuart.htm
A negative DNA match could proably be taken not to mean anything, wheras there was a paper trail leading to the relative in Canada which might indicate how close of a match to suggest.