Queen Elizabeth news: Game show star ‘blown away’ after uncovering royal relation to Her Majesty

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A GAME show TV star has discovered that she is the 19th cousin to the Queen whilst on the genealogy series DNA Journey.

Anne ‘The Governess’ Hegerty uncovered that her 20-times great grandfather was King Robert the Bruce — and her 19th cousin is the Queen.

Through her mother’s line, Anne is related to a family called Hayes, one of whom married Robert the Bruce’s daughter Princess Elizabeth in 1370.

That links Anne to our present Royal Family and makes the Queen her 19th cousin.

Hegerty said she’d heard this from her grandmother before and didn’t believe it to be true.

The quizzer said: “My aunt said she was a romancer and she’d embroider life a bit, so I always felt that anything from my grandmother had to be taken with a pinch of salt.”

The TV brainbox, who has been a “Chaser”, or quizzer, on the ITV game show since 2010, continues: “My mother was always deeply disapproving of the idea of anyone knowing about their ancestors.

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