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Message:: [QUOTE="afantiques, post: 14767, member: 25"]Then there's always the Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain, known to many as the "Royal Bastards. Simple mathematics would indicate that pretty well anybody would qualify for  that one, otherwise there would simply not be enough ancestors to go round.15 generations gives everyone 32,000 ancestors. A million people would need 32 thousand million ancestors, and in 1700 the British population was about 6 million. So of the roughly 50 million native born British nowadays, you'd need 1800 thousand million ancestors in 1700. Since there were only 6 million people, at that distance in time we are all related about 3,000,000 times. That gives you a 50% chance of 'Royal Blood'. Go back another hundred years or two and the figures for shared ancesters eventually exceed the number of atoms in the Earth, let alone the population, and Kings have been throwing off bastards since there were kings.[/QUOTE]