Donald Trump claimed on social media this week that he is related to King Charles III, saying genealogists had identified the US president and the British monarch as 15th cousins while Charles was on a state visit to the United States. Trump quickly turned the claim into a joke, saying he had 'always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace' and would raise it with the King and Queen 'in a few minutes.'
The supposed family link emerged through a Daily Mail report built around an ancestral chart that Trump later reposted. The tree purported to show that both men descend from the 15th century Scottish nobleman John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox, a great grandson of King James II of Scotland, with the lines said to end 14 generations later in a British king and an American president.
