The rest is English, except for bits and pieces of other things," Roberts concluded. During a debate in the House of Peers, Lord Spencer was speaking about something that their great ancestors had done when suddenly the Earl of Arundel cut him off and said: "My Lord, when these things you speak of were doing, your ancestors were keeping sheep." However, the "final" links of Princess Di's line to Henry Spencer of Northants, d 1478 appears to be uncertain and not accepted by all. You clearly think it important. Written By Henry Mitchell For The Washington Post. Lady Diana herself is eligible through three different ancestors for the Daughters of the American Revolution. First Published In 10 July 1981, The Spencer Family Coat Of Arms, Granted On 26 May 1504, George John, Second Earl Of Spencer, Whose Notable Ancestors Include King William I Of England, Princess Diana's Paternal Grandmother Countess Cynthia Spencer And Her Father Johnnie In 1924, Princess Diana's Maternal American Great Grandmother Fanny, Princess Diana's Parents Johnnie And Frances In 1954, Princess Diana With Her Maternal Grandmother Baroness Fermoy In 1982. He did not regard her family as especially notable. This was the first time Diana got to wear a tiara and she kept to her roots, choosing the Spencer family tiara. Lord Spencer then instantly replied: "When my ancestors as you say were keeping sheep, your ancestors were plotting treason.". The Spencers remained rich, married well, and gradually climbed up the peerage. Needless to say her American great-great grandparents have other descendants besides Lady Diana; indeed, it is probable they did not have the throne of England in mind at the time they started having babies, and would be somewhat surprised that a king of England in say, the year 2020 would be their descendant. To get to the bottom of this, so that Americans can arm themselves with the right credentials, I have consulted with two genealogists who know whereof they speak. He thought a newspaper hack would rise to that bait. Through the marriage of Princess Diana’s grandparents, John the 7th Earl Spencer and Lady Cynthia Hamilton, the Spencer family enjoys a uniquely comprehensive range of descents from the royal house of Stewart/Stuart that ruled in Scotland from the … "When Work was 80," said Roberts, "he had a sick horse and spent all night in the stall with him.". oThe Crusades, you know.". Nor did they fuss whether the connection was legitimate or illegitimate. They took greater pride in being descended five times from King Charles II, even though four of those lines of descent were illegitimate including his illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy, and when the second Diana Spencer married Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1981, they were thrilled that it was through them the Stuart blood was being reintroduced into the royal line. The common thing among the above celebrities is their roots. Now many Americans find in their own families a great-aunt or a grand-mother or a great-uncle Will or some such person who is the family authority on gloire, and who can introduce into general conversation (at the proper time to startle people) the little tidbit that Charlemagne was a cousin on our mother's side and Caligula, oddly enough, on our father's. They therefore took pride in fact that Lady Georgiana Spencer, who became the most glamorous female of her day as the celebrated Duchess of Devonshire, had a long affair with the Prince Regent, later King George IV, and gave birth to his child. American Presidents Carter and Nixon are sixth cousins. Probably the elevators work out there and you can probably get cream that actually whips and there is much to be said for it.". Lady Diana's maternal ancestors' rise to royal status was based on personal, not courtly, relationships. According to the biography "The Real Diana," by Lady Colin Campbell, Kewark's background was known but kept quiet by a family that was full of Europeans descended from royalty. The latter divisive styling flourish has seen a resurgence this season owing to the popularity of Chanel’s pirate boots (yes, swashbuckling got stylish) and Wellington boots (the tall outdoorsy update to Bottega’s cult stompers). The governor of Alaska and the princess are tenth cousins, while Palin and Roosevelt are ninth cousins once removed, said Ancestry.com, online genealogists based in Provo, Utah. For the two hundred and fifty years that separated the abortive and the successful Diana Spencer's possible assumption of the position of Princess of Wales, the Spencer family was assiduous in cultivating any link that brought them closer to the throne. A mere baron might sound far from the throne, but not really: Just over a century after Work traded her money to the aristocracy, her great-granddaughter Diana became the Princess … At which point family archivist generally takes over the conversation and things go down hill from there. And if so, what is the point of knowing the precise relationship?". "She has a second cousin living on Oliver Street here in Washington. The Spencers are direct descendants, albeit illegitimate, of the House of Stuart, with the family boasting at least five lines of direct descent from the Stuarts; and from them, the Spencers trace their ancestry to other royal houses such as the Bourbons [a European royal house of French origin who ruled France and Navarre in the sixteenth century], the Medicis [an Italian banking family and a political dynasty that ruled the Republic of Florence], the Wittelsbachs [members of the family reigned as dukes, electors and kings of Bavaria in Germany], the Hanovers [ruled the electorate and then the Kingdom of Hanover in Germany], the Sforzas [a ruling family of Renaissance Italy], the Habsburgs [also known as the house of Austria], and the houses of Howard and Boleyn through Mary Boleyn, Mistress of Henry VIII of England. But the answer is simple. So close did they become that the king leased Maurice Park House, a ten-bedroomed house on the Sandringham Estate. All his predecessors became politicians and served as members of the parliament. The princess (as she will be after her marriage at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 29) has a slight American connection some generations back. Ancestry Edit. Lady Diana herself is eligible through three different ancestors for the Daughters of the American Revolution. ", "Is that worse," I inquired, "than peddlers and moneygrubbers marrying peddlers and moneygrubbers as in New England? Photo: AP, @diana.princess.wales @keishaomilana/ Instagram Style / Celebrity Rebel royals: From Diana to Japan’s Princess Mako, 5 princesses who broke royal protocol and lived by … If you are indeed a cousin, I reckon the Windsors are like everybody else and are resigned to receiving you when you drop in. For the appearance, Diana had selected a black strapless taffeta gown for a gala at Goldsmiths' Hall in London, which … "And the duPonts," I reminded him, ignoring the Yale question for I do not disclose some of my sources, "are simply unarguably an important American family no matter what you think.". She is a first cousin six times removed of Nathan Hale. "I'm a quarter American, a quarter Irish and half Scottish." There are yet a few fish not in it. The result was that the Churchill family are not really Churchills at all, but Spencers who added the surname Churchill to their own. For that matter we do not abandon Old Pearl long after she no longer pulls the plough. Edmond Roche was an Irish peer and politician in the British parliament, where he was elected to the House of Commons for County Cork in 1837. You are, ah. And their daughter, Frances Ruth Burke Roche, married Edward John Spencer, the eighth Earl Spencer. That king would be eligible for various American hereditary societies. I should point out before I begin my answer that to say “Princess Diana” is incorrect. . Unfortunately for the Roches, he loathed foreigners and cut Fanny out of his will when she married one, reinstating her only after she left her husband in 1891 and returned home with her two young sons in tow. In a sense you might say all scholarship is important, but how did you choose genealogy? In fact, the only thing that put them beyond the ordinary was the secret they kept hidden. "All American do.". . In 1601, he was made a Knight of the Garter, and created Baron Spencer of Wormleighton in the Peerage of England in 1603. But back to our parsnips: "This has caused some excitement in Chillicothe, as you can imagine," said Roberts, "and they have invited the royal couple to honeymoon there." The thing is that if her son becomes king of England he will be one-sixteenth American, the first time this has ever occurred. Frank Work, to get back to him, was a druggist's clerk in Chillicothe [other documentation shows he was a dry-goods clerk -- Ed.] "Tell me," I said, "how you answer the reproaches you say you keep getting, that you are spending your life on trivia matters of genealogy. But Reitwiesner was off on another tangent: "Presidents Carter and Nixon are sixth cousins. Written By Earl Spencer. "No," he went on after I had mentioned a friend of mine who is an American cousin of the princess, "it is virtually impossible that the first child of the royal union will be named Ben. Some quite respectable American connections for Lady Diana: She is a second cousin twelve times removed of Lewis Burwell of Virginia. Princess Diana opted for a matching Versace coat and skirt during a visit to Liverpool in 1995, and finished off the look with a Dior handbag. The question seems to be difficult. It is surprising that Armenian connection is so strong and work wonders. One of the richest women in England, she offered the cash-strapped King George II £100,000 [about $50 million today] for the hand of his son and heir Frederick, Prince of Wales, for her favorite granddaughter Diana Spencer. In Virginia it is true that old families are all related. Princess Diana reportedly had her fair share of fleeting affairs, but there was only one man she fell head over heels for: Hasnat Khan, a 36-year-old Pakistani heart surgeon. At least we are absorbed in our work, we are dedicated. November 29, 2017 —Boston, Massachusetts —World renowned genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has, together with collaborators, revealed that England’s future American Royal Bride is descended from royalty herself. ", "I have always regarded Ben as a royal name," I interposed. On 17 September 1931, Baron Fermoy [later became Mayor of King's Lynn] married Ruth Sylvia Gill, daughter of Colonel William Gill from Bieldside in Bleek Aberdeen in the North of Scotland, making her a Baroness. Back to Work, I always say, and certainly said many times with these two genealogists. And Bill here is content with a (low status) job at the Library of Congress, just so he can be near the things he needs for his research. She is a second cousin nine times removed of John Coke; a first cousin 13 times removed of George Evelyn (these are all Virginians, of course); a third cousin eight times removed of William Fairfax; a first cousin 11 times removed of William Berkeley; a sixth cousin 10 times removed of Peter Montague; a fifth cousin nine times removed of Daniel Parke Custis. I myself am resigned to never making more than $7,000 a year. The former movie star had been her sole source of reassurance the night Diana made her first official appearance with Charles after their engagement announcement. "Actually, he is a great authority on continental European genealogy. And their daughter is Lady Diana Spencer, so there you have it, from Chillicothe on. First Published In 2005, Obituary Ruth Fermoy. o. Ellen Strong -- we are about to hit pay dirt here -- was the daughter of Joseph Strong of Coventry, Conn., and Rebecca Young of Philadelphia. Emma Corrin hopes that The Crown viewers can appreciate the show for what it is.. I persisted. The Spencers have been farmers since pre-Tudor times, coming to prominence in Warwickshire in the fifteenth century. The 24-year-old actress was a guest on Tamron Hall on Monday, Nov. 16, to discuss her role as Princess Diana … There are people who move in, who have not always lived there, and they are not related. Say "green pasture" or "field at sunset" or "stabled warm" in any company that speaks our most blessed language and you will see every eye fill up. First Published In 15 August 2007, The Real Diana. Diana Spencer herself is eligible through three different ancestors for the Daughters of the American Revolution. We spoke briefly on the crosses one must bear -- one is hardly responsible for one'e forbears -- and Roberts mentioned that other American (Wallis Warfield of Maryland) associated with the British royal house. The prince and prrincess of Wales are not actually expected to make their wedding trip to Chillicothe, Ohio, the home of one of Diane Spencer's forbears, but (for the record) they certainly have been invited to do so. ", "New England is where they have Yale," he was reminded, "and where they exalt anybody that ever built a shed.". Her essential American connection are her great great grandfather, Franklin Work, of Chillicothe, Ohio and later of New York; and his wife, Ellen Wood Work, daughter of John Wood of Shepardstown and Ellen Strong of Philadelphia, whose father, Joseph Strong, was a graduate of Yale in 1788. Mrs Shand-Kydd, daughter of … While Ruth could adopt the latter, there was no way she could invent the former. The California-based humanitarian organisation, Roots of Peace, was set up in memory of Princess Diana, who was an avid campaigner against landmines. When Princess Grace of Monaco died at 52 in 1982, Diana was grief-stricken. Written By Lady Colin Campbell. He is a preeminent authority on the influence of Syrian and Armenian families in the German noble houses. Baroness Ruth made a useful contribution to the world of music, founding the King's Lynn Festival after the second World War and importing musical friends such as Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Richard Adeney to perform. But I was sure it was what he meant.]. She is a second cousin nine times removed of John Coke, a first cousin thirteen times removed of George Evelyn, a third cousin eight times removed of William Fairfax, a first cousin eleven times removed of William Berkeley, a sixth cousin ten times removed of Peter Montague, a fifth cousin nine times removed of Daniel Parke Custis. "How did you know I went to Yale?" His daughter, Frances Ellen Strong, who was the princess, great-grandmother, married James Boothby Burke Roche, the third Baron Fermoy. Who can doubt I am closely related to Mr. Roberts the genealogist and who can doubt he will have me inside Buckingham Palace within the year? Years after Princess Diana’s crash and tragic death, Burrell grabbed headlines when he started to share information about her life during and after her marriage with Prince Charles.. Burrell went as far as admitting that he was the go-between man between Diana and her several lovers, often smuggling men into the palace in the backseat of his car with a coat over them. William's late mother, Princess Diana, and great-grandmother, the Queen Mother, also were Washington's cousins. You show me a man whose values are rightly sorted out and I'll show you the progenitor of kings. Ah, Birth and breeding tell. After John F Kennedy Jr met with Princess Diana at her hotel suite in New York in 1995, it was rumored the two were having a secret affair. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. In fact I have a theory that when the old Eastern families kept marrying one another it made people rather short, and when they moved out in the 19th century they got new blood and started getting taller. The Ancestry Of Diana, Princess Of Wales. AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo. In 1865, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as the first Baron Fermoy by Queen Victoria. "Perhaps we can postpone Jesse James," I ventured (for one of Reitwiesner's research papers is called "The Relationship of Lady Diana Spencer to Various Persons," and he underatandably kept tossing out names he thought would prove of interest. Thereafter, generation after generation of Spencers were appointed equerries and ladies-in-waiting to royalty, culminating with Lady Diana's father being an equerry to King George VI and, later, to Queen Elizabeth II, and her grandmother Cynthia, Countess Spencer, being a Lady of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Bedchamber as well as the love of  the then Prince of Wales's life before she accepted Lady Diana's grandfather Albert Edward John Spencer's proposal of marriage in 1919. Sources: The Four Presidents genealogy is from Ancestors of American Presidents, Roberts, 1995. They understand that the fount of all honor and privilege was The Crown. Baroness Ruth was appointed a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1956 [a post she held for the next thirty three years], and functioned in a world where breeding and good behavior were all important. Now then. "What are you laughing about?" Today, we remember the British princess and her Irish roots. Lady Diana is one-fourth Scots, one-sixteenth Irish and Anglo-Irish, and one-eighth American. [He did not actually say this. It was while Ruth was a student at the Paris Conservatoire of Music that she met Maurice. There is a beautiful daffodil named 'Fermoy,' by the way, and by the way the Burke Roches do not use a hypen in their double name. She is a first cousin six times removed of Nathan Hale. Her ancestry includes many royals and nobles.. "She is also distantly related to Hermann Goering," said Reitwiesner, who was beginning to show signs of being a royal troublemaker, one of those annoying people who believe in the whole truth though the heavens fall. Now this Mrs. Work was a daughter of John Wood of Shepardstown, W. Va., and Ellen Strong of Philadelphia. Let me say that Bill here, though he is short, is not all that inbred," Roberts said, hoping he had not hurt Reitwiesnerhs feelings. The American and Anglican honor is essentially identical. Sheep from their pastures were purchased for breeding and it is probable that the family’s success as farmers was rarely equalled in the century. I am doing what I can." Bits and pieces? Both Roberts and Reitwiesner, I am happy to say, are in the family. Diana's distant noble ancestors included the first Duke In 1995, a little less than a year before Charles and Diana's official divorce, the Princess of Wales confirmed the affair in a famous interview with BBC's Panorama. His nephew, another John, through trade in livestock and commodities, then bought both properties [Wormleighton and Althorp] outright, was knighted, granted with coat of arms on 26 May 1504, and so lay the bedrock for the family's fortune. The Roches were exceedingly good-looking family, with two of the most beautiful ancestral homes in Ireland, Cahirguillamore and Kilshanning, but through high living and gambling, they had dissipated their fortune and would have been completely broke had the second Baron's heir not married Franklin Work's daughter in the late nineteenth century. To be quite sure that one is related to persons of consequence it may in some cases be necessary to go back to Adam. Are we not rightly known among all other nations as the ones who forgive almost anything except beastliness towards old animals (excluding people, of course, who are supposed to take care of themselves). His proviso while doing so was that she cease using her titled married name and agree not to return to Europe for the remainder of her life. In 1953, aged 17, Frances became engaged to Johnnie Althorp, 12 years her senior and heir to the Spencer earldom. And so they are, but the task here is to pin down the essential blood relationship by which Americans may be guided in their future dealings with the Windsors). One of my own great-grandmothers was May Roberts, a well-known intellectual (according to my late grandmother) of the day who went to college which only strange intellectual women did then. A permanent memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed is pictured in the Harrods store in London, 31 August 2006, on the ninth anniversary of their death. In the late sixteenth century, Sir Robert Spencer represented Brackley in Parliament. One day she was dressed in sober gray, the next in dazzlingly happy pink. Here is … This Mr. Strong, who was a graduate of Yale in 1788, himself had 25 percent well-documented forbears who lived in New England in the period between 1623 and 1650. The next nineteen generations of Spencers rose to opulent prominence, particularly during the sixteenth century. She has a tenth cousin working here at The Washington Post. That king would be eligible for various American hereditary societies. She was the youngest daughter of the then Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, now the late (8th) Earl Spencer and the late Hon. On August 31, 1997, Princess Diana died of injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris. The rest is English, except for bits and pieces of other things. And so, at twenty, she married him and went on to have a wonderful life in the lap of luxury. Princess Diana was a second cousin, once removed, of American actor Oliver Platt. Although the Prime Minister forbade the marriage, thereafter the Spencers remained close to the throne, enabled in no small measure by the vast fortune Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, left to her favorite grandson, the second Spencer grandson who lost out on the titles of Sunderland and Marlborough. Printed By Clifford Press, Coventry. . There is not all that much Americans can do with Frank Work, fine man though he was, but once you start exploring his and his wife's relatives and going back a bit, you wind up with all those 17th century worthies. Kerry Lee Gaertner, 9, presents Princess Diana with a bouquet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Feb. 2, 1989 before the American debut of the Welsh National Opera performance of "Falstaff." Diana Spencer herself is eligible through three different ancestors for the Daughters of the American Revolution. First Published In 07 July 1993, Lady Diana's American Cousins. Fri, 30 Jun, 2017 - 01:00 Princess Diana’s paternal three times great … This was that her great great grandmother Eliza Kewark was a dark skinned native of Bombay who had lived, without benefit of matrimony, with her great great grandfather Theodore Forbes while he worked for the East India Company. ", "But," I argued, "isn't it true that all people whose families have lived in the same geographical place a few generations are inevitably related, at least as closely as second cousin, to all others? This fiction was maintained even When Lady Diana married the Prince of Wales. I have some candlesticks of hers. But I certainly expect that once the princess of Wales' American connection becomes generally known we shall see half of this continent boarding Concordes and steamers and open rafts to sail to London -- to sail to the palace -- to have tea with the family. Written By Richard K. Evans. Lady Diana is one-fourth Scots, one-sixteenth Irish and Anglo-Irish, and one-eighth American. At one point Frank Work was in trouble and asked the commodore for financial advice, which he took and which was excellent. Since the announcement of the end of her marriage on December 9, Diana, Princess of Wales, has been visibly reborn. Frances Ellen Work (October 27, 1857 – January 26, 1947) was an American heiress and socialite. Most of them are seventh to tenth cousins. She is a first cousin six times removed of Nathan Hale. Lady Diana is one-fourth Scots, one-sixteenth Irish and Anglo-Irish, and one-eighth American. "What a thing to say," I cried. He then carried this interdict further, and left her twin sons, Maurice and Francis, portions of his fortune only if they became American citizens and remained in the United States for the remainder of their lives. She is a 24 th generation descendant of King Edward III, a medieval monarch of England who died in 1377. It doesn't' stop with Washington, … Princess Diana's hidden Irish roots On the eve of what would have been Princess Diana’s 56th birthday, Ryle Dwyer reveals her hidden Irish connections. With his money and international panache, he fitted well into the upper echelons of British society, especially after becoming Conservative Member of Parliament for King's Lynn, something that was possible because he was an Irish peer with no rights to sit in the House of Lords. Desktop notifications are on   | Turn off, Get breaking news alerts from The Washington Post. ", "Of course. ", "Well, no doubt," said Roberts, "but all you really get from Maryland is fine old families marrying fine old Maryland families. "Yes, I adored him. "I know people think genealogists are offbeat. "You can do worse than spend your honeymoon in the gentle green landscape of Ohio. "I said something about inbreeding making people short. That loss notwithstanding, the Spencers flourished throughout the eighteenth century. There was another, less fortunate, result of the marriage of the Churchill heiress to the Earl of Sunderland. There son, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, the fourth baron, married Ruth Sylvia Gill. Although I knew there was this connection with Princess Diana I didn’t know until then what the relationship was.’ History: Joan Heather Powell (1917 … Diana, Princess of Wales’s style legacy lives on through her campy knitted jumpers, monster-collared blouses and the trouser-boot tuck. In most families, however, one need not go back so far to turn up persons of immense eminence (at least as far as Aunt Maude is concerned). Reitwiesner, the one that likes to make trouble, appeared to be enjoying himself, but provided, after all, some quite respectable American connections for the princess: She is a second cousin 12 times removed of Lewis Burwell of Virginia, his researches have disclosed. During the reign of King James I, he was reputed to be the richest man in England. We may have faults -- certainly the English do -- but when the chips are down we may be described in a nutshell as men who slumber not when Crock of Gold is off his feed or breaks a leg or has to be put down. Eliza's true race was expunged from the family tree and she reemerged as An Armenian. All you have to do is go back yourself until you hit one of them and you have it made. Also let me say that "cousin" is one of the most valuable words in the language since it covers relationships that may be extremely close genetically and also covers relationships so remote as to be astronomical. Diana was born into the British Spencer family, different branches of which hold the titles of Duke of Marlborough, Earl Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Churchill. Their administration of their Northamptonshire and Warwickshire estates was admired and often emulated by gentlemen all over England. Princes Diana was also a fourth cousin, twice removed, of actress and comedian Miranda Hart. Lady Diana has few southern connections in America, almost all Yankees.". Have you seen my work in 'Burke's Presidential Families' in which we trace the pedigrees of all American presidents through Reagan? Her maternal great-grandparents, James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy, and Frances Ellen Work, were also Oliver’s maternal great-great-grandparents. as a young man, but he went to New York to seek his fortune. It was the base of Work's own fortune of $15 million," Roberts recounted. His descendants expanded the holdings through business dealings and marriage into the peerage. The Baroness did play the piano in public occasionally after her marriage, most notably with Josef Krips at the Royal Albert Hall in 1950, and with Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra at King's Lynn in 1966. Now the princess' essential American connection is her great-great-grandfather, Frank Work, of Chillicothe, Ohio and later of New York; and his wife, Ellen Wood Work. The Churchills were so much more famous and eminent that the Spencers became the secondary branch of their own family, and even lost their earldom, which was absorbed in the dukedom of Marlborough and has subsequently been used by the eldest son of the duke's heir, the Marquis of Blandford. "Well," said Roberts, "you are only partly right. When he became the fourth Baron Fermoy, Maurice returned to live in England with the $3,000,000 which he had inherited from his indomitable but controlling grandfather. There he met Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt -- both men were greatly interested in horses, it was a bond between them. She remained closely involved with the Festival for twenty-five years, persuading Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to become its patron. "Oh," is the usual response to this information. Roberts said the new princess of Wales has few southern connections in America, almost all Yankees. Her family was neither grand or impressive. 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