A recent press release from MyFamily.com that announced their
license to publish British census records from 1841 to 1901 on the Internet
also publicized the fact that Princess Diana, Winston Churchill, and George
W. Bush are all distantly related. Their common ancestor was Henry Spencer (1420–1478)
of Badby, Northhamptonshire.
George W. Bush and his father, the former president, have long
been known to have royal ancestry. Gary Boyd Roberts, a genealogist at the New
England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston and one of the foremost authorities
on the royal ancestry of American presidents, notes that Bush is descended from
British royalty going as far back as 12th century King Henry I, the son of William
the Conqueror.
You can read a short story about this at CNN’s website,
another at the Globe and Mail site.
In-depth details are available at: www.ancestry.com/landing/uk/ustree.htm?SourceCode=3834&iid=3834
and at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~addams/presidential/bush.html.
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