Friday 1 July 2011

Jane Austen and Kate Middleton



Linda has directed us to an article written in the Daily Mail which suggests that the new Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, may be related to Jane Austen. They may well be 11th cousins, six times removed but being a fan of Kate Middleton, I think it makes sense.





You can read the article here






Pics: Daily Mail article

5 comments:

Icha said...

That's a very interesting article, Linda. Thanks for that, and thanks for posting it Rachel.

One thing I always wanted to ask, what does it mean to be 'a cousin twice removed' or something like that? It always confuses me.

Linda Fern said...

Oh, dear me, I had to Google that 'cousin' question! I am the family genealogist and even I didn't know how to figure that out. I just never needed to know. Anyway here is a link to the answer:
Cousins

Hope that makes some sense to you, because I still find it tedious.

Yrs aff'ly,
Linda the Librarian

Icha said...

the link doesn't work somehow, Linda. But that's okay. Whenever you finally get it, just share it with me/us. Thanks.

Linda Fern said...

Here you go - I was trying to get all fancy and make a link and botched it up somehow. So here is the link:

http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html

Hope that works! If not we will try again.

Yrs aff'ly,
Linda the Librarian

Icha said...

OMG, sorry Linda! Been very reckless with website maintenance... but hopefully next week will be better after I send the thesis to my editor.

Thanks for the link btw.