Truth Warrior
11-05-2008, 03:27 AM
Barack Obama's Royal Roots
Originally posted Monday March 03, 2008 08:55 AM EST
Barack Obama has connections in high places – like the British Royal Family.
So says British genealogist Robert Barrett, who traced the Democratic presidential hopeful's roots.
"Obama's mother, Ann, brought to his gene pool a descent from the 17th-century plantation owner Mareen Duvall," he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=6128&menuItemId=-1=MENUCONTENTFIRST&grid=A1&targetRule=0). "She is an ancestor of the Duchess of Windsor."
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, is the only American to have married into the British royal family – Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 to become her spouse. She died in April 1986.
But that's not all, according to the genealogist.
"[Obama] has a rich mixture of European ancestors, including the early medieval kings of England and Scotland, a signatory of the Magna Carta, and, for good measure, an Irish emigrant from County Offaly," he explained.
Obama is locked with Hillary Clinton in a close race for the Democratic presidential nomination. His famous supporters include Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba (http://www.people.com/people/jessica_alba) and Ryan Phillippe (http://www.people.com/people/ryan_phillippe).
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20181471,00.html
Originally posted Monday March 03, 2008 08:55 AM EST
Barack Obama has connections in high places – like the British Royal Family.
So says British genealogist Robert Barrett, who traced the Democratic presidential hopeful's roots.
"Obama's mother, Ann, brought to his gene pool a descent from the 17th-century plantation owner Mareen Duvall," he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=6128&menuItemId=-1=MENUCONTENTFIRST&grid=A1&targetRule=0). "She is an ancestor of the Duchess of Windsor."
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, is the only American to have married into the British royal family – Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 to become her spouse. She died in April 1986.
But that's not all, according to the genealogist.
"[Obama] has a rich mixture of European ancestors, including the early medieval kings of England and Scotland, a signatory of the Magna Carta, and, for good measure, an Irish emigrant from County Offaly," he explained.
Obama is locked with Hillary Clinton in a close race for the Democratic presidential nomination. His famous supporters include Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba (http://www.people.com/people/jessica_alba) and Ryan Phillippe (http://www.people.com/people/ryan_phillippe).
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20181471,00.html