Tangled Relationships.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 6 February 1902, Page 17

Tangled Relationships.

From time to time we read in public prints oases of those fearfully tangled relationships by which a man becomes his own grandfather or mother-in-law. The cases are, however, usually ' faked.' It will be refreshing to lovers of the curious and the out-of-the-way in genealogical labyrinths to come across the case in real life which is recorded in the latest issue to hand of M.A.P. ' Lord Chesham,' says M.A.P., 'was doubly connected, and in a very curious way, with the late Duke of Westminster, who was not only his brother-in-law, but also his father-in-law, as Lord Chesham married his Grace's daughter by his first wife. Lady Chesham was, in consequence of this double alliance, sister-in-law to her own father, while the Dnchess of Westminster became mother-in-law to her own brother. The Duke was, further, grandfather and also uncle by marriage to Lord Chesham's children, while his own children by his second wife were at the same time his great-nephews and nieces.'