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Kissing Cousins?

Rings didn’t just bind unveiled post-wedding, Prince Charles and Princess Diana but also by bloodlines, albeit faint ones. Get this: they were 16th cousins, once removed, thanks to their shared lineage from King Henry VII of Tudor, a monarch of the Kingdom of England.

It was far removed enough to keep lawyers at bay, but it sure stoked the fires of gossip. Some critics even speculated the royal family was veering toward a genetic cul-de-sac. Yet, let’s face it, this revelation turned heads but hardly stopped the world from celebrating their iconic, albeit tumultuous, union.

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