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On Tuesday, Trump posted an article from the U.K. tabloid Daily Mail which claimed the president was distantly related to Charles via James II of Scotland, who died in 1460.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Lollobrigida, who is distantly related to the late Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, had previously won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2022 Beijing Games.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
Gates found that Pope Leo was distantly related to Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Hilary Clinton through a single Canadian ancestor.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025
He said that future studies looking at communication in other primate species more distantly related to us will give us a more complete evolutionary picture of why we adopted this fast turn-taking chat.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
Some of these were only very distantly connected with Bilbo, and some of them had hardly ever been in Hobbiton before, as they lived in remote corners of the Shire.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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