The following teaser is from the August 23, 2012 edition of azcentral.com:
Stick a tiara on Hilary Duff, America’s closest celebrity relative to Queen Elizabeth II, according to a genealogical study.
In fact, millions of Americans of English descent can claim a distant – very, very distant – relationship to the queen, but Duff, a Disney princess best known for playing Lizzie McGuire, tops a list of 20 Yank stars who are umpteenth cousins many times removed, according to the study released today by genealogy website findmypast.com.
Also among the top 20 are Brooke Shields, Maggie and Jake Gyllenhall, Michael Douglas, Ellen DeGeneres, Beyonce, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Alec Baldwin.
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According to Josh Taylor, a genealogist who helped document the connections for findmypast.com, Duff is the queen’s 18th cousin. Both trace their ancestry back to Edward III, a king with many children, who died in 1377. The rest on the list share descent with the queen from either English or French kings.
