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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA remarkable revelation has emerged as King Charles III and Queen Camilla embark on their historic State Visit to the US this week.\n\nResearch conducted on behalf of the Daily Mail has established that President Trump and the British monarch could actually be 15th cousins, sharing a common ancestor in the third Earl of Lennox.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThis Scottish nobleman was a great-grandson of King James II of Scotland, placing both the President and the King within the same aristocratic bloodline.\n\nThe lineage traces through Lord Lennox's daughter, Lady Helen, who married the 11th Earl of Sutherland.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTheir son, the 12th Earl, fathered Lady Jane, who subsequently married into the Clan Mackay.\n\nFrom this came Donald Mackay, later created 1st Lord Reay, a devoted supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War.\n\nThe ancestral line then passed through successive generations of Mackays before continuing through the MacLeod family.\n\nThis Scottish heritage ultimately led to Mary Anne MacLeod of Lewis, who emigrated to America in 1930 and married property developer Fred Trump. Their fourth child, Donald, was born in 1946.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nYet the President's newly discovered royal ancestry presents a rather amusing complication.\n\nHis lineage now connects him directly to George III, the very monarch whose rule the American colonies themselves rejected in 1776.\n\nThis creates a remarkable irony as the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence this year, the subject of the King's State Visit.\n\nThe President and the First Lady welcomed the royal couple to the White House on Monday, with the formal ceremonial reception scheduled for today.\n\n### LATEST ROYAL NEWS\n\n\n\n\n  * Donald Trump breaks royal protocol immediately after meeting King Charles at White House\n  * King to make case for 'reconciliation' in speech to US Congress after last-minute change\n  * King and Queen greet Donald and Melania Trump at White House in landmark moment\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe President has long expressed admiration for the Royal Family, with his mother having been \"a big fan\" of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nAfter his initial 2018 meeting with the late monarch, President Trump called the Queen \"an incredible lady,\" adding: \"I feel I know her so well and she certainly knows me very well right now\".\n\nHis fondness extends equally to the current sovereign.\n\nSpeaking on the King ahead of the visit last week, President Trump said: \"I know him well, I've known him for years. He's a brave man, and he's a great man. They would absolutely be a positive.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHis admiration for King Charles was demonstrated further when meeting the monarch on the White House South Lawn yesterday, where he broke royal protocol by initiating physical contact.\n\nBody language expert Judi James told the Daily Mail that the move demonstrated a \"gesture of active, 'special' friendship\".\n\nThe King is set to address a joint meeting of Congress today, where he will speak of the \"reconciliation and renewal\" that characterises the long history between Britain and America.\n\nHe will become only the second British monarch to address a joint meeting, following Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in 1991.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "King Charles and Donald Trump families traced revealing they are cousins"
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