Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida Bonas are cousins, according to genealogy archives published online.
The blue-blooded discovery comes after more than 11 million documents, known as the Tithe Records, charting proprietorship and residence of land in England and Wales between 1836 and 1930 were uploaded on to website TheGenalogist.co.uk in partnership with the National Archives.
After sifting through the records, genealogy experts revealed that Bonas, 25, has an ancestral link to Harry, 29, that could be traced back to Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, Princess Diana’s great-great-grandfather.
The ancestral link means that Prince Harry and his sweetheart are fourth half-cousins once removed, sharing 1.6 per cent of their genes with their common ancestor, David Osborne of The Genealogist told The Sunday Times.
Experts also discovered that Cressida’s linage could also be traced back to Winston Churchill.
As predictions of a royal engagement between the pair mount just weeks after Cressida accompanied Harry to an official engagement, a source close to couple reportedly insists that the dance graduate “isn’t ready” to give up her career for royal life.
