Mrs Reagan’s Royal cousin
NZPA Boston As many as 30 million Americans are distantly related to the Princess of Wales — including Nancy Reagan, her tenth cousin, says a genealogy researcher. “Nancy has a royal line. Lots of Americans do,” said Gary Boyd Roberts, research director of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. “There were 500 immigrants who came to this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were descended from English kings.” The wives of-Mr Reagan
and Prince Charles were tenth cousins, and their children — Ron Reagan and the infant Prince William — were eleventh cousins, he said. The ancestor Mrs Reagan and the Princess had in common was Thomas Woodford, who founded, Northampton, Massachusetts. The Princess’s great-great-great-grand-father, Joseph Strong, who was born in Connecticut in 1770, had graduated from Yale and married the daughter of a privateer, also a distant cousin of Mrs Reagan’s.
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