Johnny Depp, Michael Douglas and the Queen Elisabeth II : guess what they have in common – Gala

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Genealogists have given evidence : several american celebrities have blue blood. Explanations.

The research of the venerable New England Genealogical Society are highly recognized in the field of genealogy. Then, when members of this society, working on the family tree of hollywood stars, some of these findings are really bluffantes. That could, indeed, imagine that Johnny Depp, pirates of the Caribbean, is cousin to the 20th degree of queen Elizabeth II ?

And yet, this descendant of a family of Huguenots, by the name of Deppes, taking refuge in England to escape the persecutions against the protestants in France, would be well-related to the Queen by Margaret Percy, who lived in the 15th century and descended from the third earl of Northumberland.

But it is not the only one to share a bit of royal DNA. Actor Michael Douglas, who has a ancestor was king Edward III who reigned from 1327 to 1377, is, also, a cousin in the 19th degree with the queen. The actress of Kill Bill, Uma Thurman, comes, she, of king Edward 1, made famous by his ardor in battle, and, today, by the film Braveheart, with Mel Gibson, which recounts his life. Tom Hanks has a kinship with John of England, known by the name of Jean Sans Terre, to the throne of England from 1204 to 1214.

If Hugh Grant, one of the heroes of Bridget Jones’s account of Henry VII among his ancestors, for Brad Pitt, it is necessary to go back to the 12th century and king Henry II, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine.As to Angelina Jolie this is not in England but in France, including his mother Macheline Bertrand is a native, he must track down his blue blood. Its aristocratic roots date back to king Philip II, best known under the name of Philip Augustus, who reigned from 1180 to 1223. Despite its setbacks matrimonial, the sovereign was a mighty conqueror, who has successfully fought Jean Without Earth… The ancestor of Tom Hanks !

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