So, ya think the Royal Family has some close examples of

[Wickerman]

inner-marrying? Perhaps you have heard that Kerry and Bush are actually cousins? Check this link out:
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/5481

G.W. Bush and John Kerry are calculated to be 9th cousins twice removed and on top of that, Bush and Kerry have several cousins in common — Walt Disney, Michael Douglas, Clint Eastwood, the Wright Brothers, Meriwether Lewis, Hugh Hefner, Clara Barton, Georgia O’Keeffe, Princess Diana — and even former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.

Then, look at this for the full list:
http://www.familyforest.com/Kerry_Bush_Cousins.html

I'll just take this list thru the C's...
Cousin Relationships Calculated by the Family Forest August 8, 2004 (*)

Some Famous Cousins of Senator John Forbes Kerry President George W. Bush

Agatha Christie 18th cousin twice removed 20th cousin 3 times removed
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Half 8th cousin twice removed 8th cousin twice removed
Aldous Huxley 15th cousin 4 times removed 15th cousin 6 times removed
Alec Baldwin 11th cousin twice removed
Anthony Perkins 17th cousin once removed 10th cousin twice removed
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. 10th cousin once removed 9th cousin once removed
Bette Davis 9th cousin 10th cousin twice removed
Bing Crosby Half 9th cousin once removed
Bridget Fonda 8th cousin
Brigham Young 11th cousin 4 times removed 5th cousin 6 times removed
Brooke Shields 22nd cousin once removed 11th cousin
Bruce Harrison 16th cousin once removed 20th cousin
Charles Darwin 11th cousin 4 times removed 14th cousin 5 times removed
Clara Barton 8th cousin 3 times removed 6th cousin 6 times removed
Clint Eastwood 10th cousin once removed 18th cousin
David Crosby 17th cousin once removed 8th cousin once removed

Further down is a list of how the various US Presidents are inner-related...

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Not one black in the bunch. Too bad.

[russian33]

2. So Nader is right? They are the same?

That's it! I'm voting Nader!


:evilgrin:

[Wickerman]

3. Nah, That is some pretty wide seperation

Most people don't keep in touch with their 2nd cousins, let alone with their 9th, twice removed.

This was posted only to lampoon the seriousness that some attach to the Kerry Bush cousin thing.

However, do you think cousin David Crosby coked up GWB? :evilgrin:

[russian33]

4. well, you know 'some people say' that's how Dubya got his drugs...

..I'm not saying it's true, but you know, some people do say :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. I have read that

no one on earth is farther removed than 50th cousin

we really are a family