{"id":2393608,"date":"2026-04-28T22:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2393608"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:48:44","slug":"is-trump-related-to-king-charles-shocking-distant-cousins-link-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/is-trump-related-to-king-charles-shocking-distant-cousins-link-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump related to King Charles? Shocking ‘distant cousins’ link found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A surprising genealogical link discovered by The Daily Mail says that President Donald Trump and Britain’s King Charles III are distant cousins through shared ancestry. The Daily Mail has uncovered a newly traced family tree that connects Trump’s lineage to European royal bloodlines.<\/p>\n

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A genealogical connection reveals Trump as King Charles III’s 15th cousin, tracing back to Scottish aristocracy and royal heritage. (Photo by Jim Watson \/ AFP) (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWow, that\u2019s nice. I\u2019ve always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace!!! I\u2019ll talk to the King and Queen about this in a few minutes!!!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday, expressing joy.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail reportedthat President Trump’s ancestry also connects him to the royal houses of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.<\/p>\n

Read more: Britain’s King Charles meets Trump as he begins US tour in bid to salvage ties<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tracing the royal connection<\/h2>\n

The reported link stems from Trump\u2019s maternal ancestry, which traces back to Scotland, and intersects with aristocratic lineages connected to the British royal family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The third Earl of Lennox, a great-grandson of King James II of Scotland, is Trump’s common ancestor and the source of his royal ancestry. John Stuart, the third Earl, had a son named Matthew, whose son later became Mary, Queen of Scots’ second husband.<\/p>\n

Mary and her husband were parents toKing James I of England, and the rest is simply history. A succession of King Georges, Queen Elizabeths, and a few more followed, culminating in King Charles III of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Trump’s lineage comes from Lady Helen and the Earl of Sutherland, who had a daughter named Lady Jane. Lady Jane married the chief of the Clan Mackay.<\/p>\n

Their son, another Donald Mackay, was the first Lord Reay. This Donald produced generations of Mackays and then McLeods.<\/p>\n

Mary Anne MacLeod of Lewis, who immigrated to the United States in 1930, is descended from this Donald. There, she wed Fred Trump, a real estate developer, and the two had five kids. The fourth was Donald Trump, who was born in 1946.<\/p>\n

This is how President Trump is King Charles III’s 15th cousin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read more: Harry’s shocking statement to Charles after being told to leave Frogmore Cottage<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trump is not the only president who is related to the Royal family<\/h2>\n

According to reports at the time, American presidents are at least six times more likely to be descended from royalty than the electorate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

George H.W. Bush’s family tree dates back to the 1400s, according to genealogists who identified him as Queen Elizabeth II’s 13thcousin in 1988.<\/p>\n

Additionally, according to the Daily Mail, Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton were both descended from John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, in Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hindustantimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A surprising genealogical link discovered by The Daily Mail says that President Donald Trump and Britain’s King Charles III are distant cousins through shared ancestry. The Daily Mail has uncovered a newly traced family tree that connects Trump’s lineage to European royal bloodlines. A genealogical connection reveals Trump as King Charles III’s 15th cousin, tracing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2393609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[467022,22389,183315,24638,467021,467023],"class_list":["post-2393608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-are-trump-and-king-charles-related","tag-donald-trump","tag-king-charles","tag-trump","tag-trump-king-charles-relation","tag-trump-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Is-Trump-related-to-King-Charles-Shocking-distant-cousins-link.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393610,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393608\/revisions\/2393610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}