Keep in mind that, thanks to the number of ancestors we have, that almost everyone of reasonably pure British ancestry is related in some fashion to the English Royal Family. Indeed, we are distant cousins of ourselves: we have 68,719,476,736 great grandparents born in the middle of the eleventh century, many many times more people than existed in the world. So Sarah Palin being related to the Queen in no big deal. And, of course, much of that is speculation. In the 1930s my grandfather got interested in family genealogy and developed a family tree going back to Adam and Eve. He tracked his family, via the Mayflower to England and and made a connection to British royalty, specifically to the Stuarts. They, of course, were originally the stewards of the Scottish Royal family, descended from outlaws banished from Ireland in the 6th or 7th Century. From there, he went to the Irish genealogy and, to his satisfaction, that they, in turn, came from Cornwall. Lo and behold there was Veronica of the Veil and Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus's cousin. From there it was an easy trip to Matthew for the balance of the names! And how MT would have enjoyed making fun of that list! Take care, Bob Huddleston Northglenn, CO