Meghan and Oprah interview...holy shit!

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94. I was surprised when my genealogy

research turned up descent from the Plantagenet dynasty on one side of one grandmother's family. There are so many people, even in the US, who trace back to them that it is no big deal. After all, descendants increase exponentially, just as ancestors do when tracing back to them. Would never turn me into an Anglophile. It was 7 centuries ago.

But it did teach me a lot about British history since I looked up more about them and what drove their descendants to come to America. They were the kind of people whose actions would have got the whole clan in prison if they had not been royals and nobles. The kind of people that cause you to say, "Well, there's one in every family." Except it's not one, but all of them.

Doesn't make me feel romantic about them. Just grateful that the dynasty changed and they came to America.