Donald Trump will ask King Charles about moving into Buckingham Palace after ‘cousin reveal’
Donald Trump has claimed he will speak to King Charles and Camilla about moving in after an investigation found he could be related to the Royal Family.
Research published in the Daily Mail claims that both Donald Trump and King Charles may be related through the same Scottish nobleman, the 3rd Earl of Lennox.
The study suggests that this shared ancestry could make them very distant cousins, reportedly around 15 generations apart.
‘Wow, that’s nice.
‘I’ve always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace!!! I’ll talk to the King and Queen about this in a few minutes!!! President DJT’.
Unfortunately for Trump, at a 15th cousin level, it would also make millions of people with British European roots ‘cousins’ of the King make it a bit of a squeeze even in the grandeur of Buckingham Palace.
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King Charles is about to address Congress to highlight ‘one of the greatest alliances in human history’ where the two nations find ways to ‘come together’ but it is unsure if he means having Trump move in with him.
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It is only the second time a British monarch has addressed a joint meeting of Congress, the first being Queen Elizabeth II in 1991.
The president has always spoken in glowing terms about Charles, repeatedly referring to the monarch as his ‘friend’ and a ‘great guy.’
He also repeatedly boasts of his ‘amazing’ trip to the UK in September with Melania Trump after Starmer hand-delivered the invitation from the King.
The Royal Family laid on pomp and pageantry for the Trumps, with scarlet-clad guardsmen, brass bands and a sumptuous banquet at Windsor Castle.
Who was the Earl of Lennox?
John Stewart was a Scottish nobleman born around 1490 and given the title Earl of Lennox.
He was a great-grandson of James II of Scotland, connecting him to the Royal Family.
But the Earl got caught in a deadly power struggle over the young king James V of Scotland.
He was captured after being defeated in the Battle of Linlithgow Bridge and was killed by a rival noble known as the ‘Bastard of Arran’.
His son, the 4th Earl of Lennox, went on to produce Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Their son became King James I of England, whom after the Stuarts the House of Windsor would all descend.
Eventually, their heir, Lady Jane would marry a Donald Mackay.
From this Donald, through generations of Mackays and then of MacLeods, the line comes down to Mary Anne MacLeod of Lewis, who moved from Scotland to the USA in 1930.
There, she married property developer Fred Trump, and had five children, Donald Trump, born in 1946.