I have descended from Cardinal Woolsey?

Makes sense... we both have a propensity for losing our heads...

Star Is Descended From Kings. Of Course, Most People Are

Even without a documented connection to a notable forebear, experts say, the odds are virtually 100 percent that every person on Earth is descended from one royal personage or another.

"Millions of people have provable descents from medieval monarchs," said Mark Humphrys, a genealogy enthusiast and professor of computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland. "The number of people with unprovable descents must be massive."

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