The Daily Mirror spent a couple of bucks to find out that Johnny Depp and Queen Elizabeth are 20th cousins. If you want to really take this to the nth degree you will recall on Friday over on Facebook I talked about that new movie Unlawful Killing. Well, Johnny lives in Paris right? Dina died there? The Royal Family wanted Diana killed? Just happened to have a 20th cousin of the family living in Paris where Diana died? Coincidence?
Apparently the tie between the families comes down to an unconfirmed marriage in the 1400's. Back in the 1400's they probably knew that somewhere down the line they would need someone for a dirty job down the line so they made the wedding seem a little shady. That way there would be some cover. I think Dan Brown should investigate.
I watched this show once on Discovery about the human genome project, and what they showed was there are only 6 or so original "tribes" of people, so I am not shocked that they could be distantly related. We're ALL related, pretty well.
ReplyDelete...says my 15th cousin, twice removed (Sue Ellen). HA!
ReplyDeletethe daily mirror must have been saving this for a slow news day. it's far more fun for johnny to be related to the QE2 rather than say, kfed and his tribe from fresno.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm just visualizing something like The Tourist, but with Queen Elizabeth in Angelina Jolie's character.
ReplyDeleteActually, that would have improved the movie a lot.
Go back far enough, and any two people are related. Cro-magnon and all that. File this under "dumbest news stories ever"
ReplyDelete20th cousin? That is so far removed as to be filed under "Who the fuck cares?"
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Sue Ellen!
ReplyDeleteThat sort of stuff is facinating to me.
:) I wanted to get my mitocondrial dna tested but its a lot of money. I will eventually though. Technology can be so cool
And wasnt there something lame about Gaga and Madonna being 9th cousins once removed or soemething that came out friday?
ReplyDeleteUgh, like Gaga needs another reason to copy Madonna.
We all come from Adam and Eve (or Steve depending on which version of the bible you read, King James or King Elton)
ReplyDeleteI always find it funny that Christianity is opposed to homosexuality, but just fine with the fact that Adam and Eve went on to have daughters who married their brothers. Ew.
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