Is it possible that my great great great grandma was related to royalty in England?
Camilla, the Prince of Wales’ former mistress and the current Duchess of Cornwall, first attracted Prince Charles’ attention by reminding him that her great grandmother, Alice Keppel, was Edward VII’s mistress. Additionally, both she and Lady Diana Spencer were both descendants of Charles II’s mistresses, Charles Stuart acknowledging 12 illegitimate children by half a dozen mistresses. Indeed, English kings who didn’t take mistresses were very few and far between. For every proven royal bastard, there were probably many unacknowledged ones. Plus, after a few generations of marrying down, the younger daughters of kings’ descendants passed out of the aristocracy into the general population. Sure, since England has had kings since long before 1066, and the Scottish Stuarts (or Stewarts before Mary Queen of Scots) have similarly produced illegitimate children, odds are you (and a large percentage of the British population as well as many Americans of English or Scottish descent) may be des
