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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.[1][2] The Spencers claimed descent from a cadet branch of the powerful medieval Despenser family, but its validity is questioned.[3] Her great-grandmother was Margaret Baring, a member of the German-British Baring family of bankers and the daughter of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke.[4][5] Diana's distant noble ancestors included the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough.[6] Diana and Charles were distantly related, as they were both descended from the House of Tudor through Henry VII of England.[7] She was also descended from the House of Stuart through Charles II of England by Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, and his brother James II of England by Henrietta FitzJames.[8][9] Other noble ancestors include Margaret Kerdeston, granddaughter of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk; Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England; and Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, a descendant of Edward III of England through his son Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.[10][11][12] Diana's Scottish roots came from her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy.[10] Her Scottish ancestors included Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, and his wife Jane, and Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll.[10]

Diana's American lineage came from her great-grandmother Frances Ellen Work, daughter of wealthy American stockbroker Franklin H. Work from Ohio, who was married to her great-grandfather James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy, an Irish peer.[10][13] Diana's fourth great-grandmother in her direct maternal line, Eliza Kewark, was matrilineally of Indian descent.[14][15][16][17][18] She is variously described in contemporary documents as "a dark-skinned native woman" and "an Armenian woman from Bombay".[19][20]




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  1. ^ "A Modern Monarchy – The Royal Family appears to have overcome its troubles and the new generation has adapted skilfully to a changing Britain". The Times. 25 July 2013. Leading articles. Prince George of Cambridge, born on Monday, now has in his relatively recent line miners and labourers; something hard to contemplate a generation ago.
  2. ^ David White (Somerset Herald) (23 July 2013). "The Windsors & the Middletons – A family tree". The Times. Pull-out supplement.
  3. ^ Lowe, Mark Anthony (1860). Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: Heritage Books, Inc. p. 325. ISBN 9780788404566. Archived from the original on 4 December 2017.
  4. ^ Ziegler, Philip (1988). The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762–1929. London: Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-217508-1.
  5. ^ "A Brief History of Barings". Baring Archive. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  6. ^ Bradford 2006, p. 31.
  7. ^ "Charles 'amazed' by Lady Di's yes". 25 February 1981. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference robinson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Sir Iain (1982). Royal Highness. London: Hamish Hamilton. p. 38.
  10. ^ a b c d Evans, Richard K. (2007). The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 9780880822084. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  11. ^ Roberts, Gary Boyd. "The Royal Ancestry of Meghan Markle". New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017. The Rev. William Skipper's ancestors Sir Philip Wentworth (died 1464) and Mary Clifford are ancestors also, in various lines, of both H.M. the late Queen Mother (and thus H.M. the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry) and of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
  12. ^ Roberts, Gary Boyd (30 November 2017). "The Shared Ancestry of (Rachel) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry" (PDF). American Ancestors. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  13. ^ Amos, Owen (27 November 2017). "The other American in Prince Harry's family". BBC News. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  14. ^ "New genetic evidence that Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is the direct descendant of an Indian woman and that he carries her mitochondrial DNA" (PDF). BritainsDNA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  15. ^ "DNA tests reveal Prince William's Indian ancestry". CNN. 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  16. ^ Brown, David (14 June 2013). "Revealed: the Indian ancestry of William". The Times. p. 1.
  17. ^ Sinha, Kounteya (16 June 2013). "Hunt on for Prince William's distant cousins in Surat". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  18. ^ Hern, Alex (14 June 2013). "Are there ethical lapses in the Times' story on William's 'Indian ancestry'?". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013. Although Eliza Kewark was indeed thought of as Armenian, it's not particularly surprising that she would have had Indian ancestors; the Armenian diaspora had been in India for centuries at the time of her birth, and even the most insular communities tend to experience genetic mixing over in that timescale.
  19. ^ a b Williamson 1981a.
  20. ^ a b Williamson 1981b.
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