Almost one in five people living in Bristol believe they are related to the Royal Family. This is according to ancestry.co.uk, which revealed that 19% of British people believe they have a royal connection.
With the Coronation celebrations set to kick off, the website - which traces family histories through DNA - said the names most likely to have some connection to the crown includes Howard, Seymour, Percy, Byron, Grosvenor and Fitzroy.
Brad Argent, family history expert at Ancestry and presenter on ITV’s DNA Journey, said: “With the right information, it’s entirely possible to trace your roots back to nobility and the Royal Family. The combination of the digitisation of billions of records, millions of family trees being created every year, plus a growing number of people doing DNA tests, means it’s more likely now than at any other time in history that people will be able to trace their lineage back to nobility and find a royal connection.”
