Bush Is Related to Churchill and Lady Diana
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.
Suprisingly, none of the links work anymore. Go figure…
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