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PRINCE WILLIAM'S INDIAN HERITAGE REVEALED
ITV News, UK
June 14 2013
New research from the University of Edinburgh and BritainsDNA claims
to have found that Prince William has Indian ancestry.
Tracing a rare form of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which is inherited
almost unchanged from a mother researchers found that the Duke of
Cambridge traces back to an Indian woman known as Eliza Kewark.
Eliza was listed as the "housekeeper" to the Duke's
great-great-great-great-great grandfather Theodore Forbes a Scottish
merchant who worked for the East India Company in Surat, a busy port
north of Bombay.
It had been believed that she was Armenian and letters between the
two are written in Armenian, however genetically she was at least
part Indian.
Eliza and Theodore had a daughter called Katherine and it is through
an unbroken line of daughters through to Princess Diana that the
young royal has inherited his Indian DNA, which is shared by his
brother Harry.
The Times claims that DNA samples were taken from "two distant cousins"
of the Prince to carry out the tests. The paper quotes Mary Roach,
Princess Diana's maternal aunt, as saying: "I always assumed that I was
part-Armenian so I am delighted that I also have an Indian background."
However because mtDNA travels down the female line neither Prince Harry
not Price William will pass the rare form on to their own descendants,
however other Indian DNA may well continue in the royal line.
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-06-14/prince-william-the-duke-of-cambridges-indian-heritage-revealed-after-dna-test/
From: Baghdasarian
ITV News, UK
June 14 2013
New research from the University of Edinburgh and BritainsDNA claims
to have found that Prince William has Indian ancestry.
Tracing a rare form of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which is inherited
almost unchanged from a mother researchers found that the Duke of
Cambridge traces back to an Indian woman known as Eliza Kewark.
Eliza was listed as the "housekeeper" to the Duke's
great-great-great-great-great grandfather Theodore Forbes a Scottish
merchant who worked for the East India Company in Surat, a busy port
north of Bombay.
It had been believed that she was Armenian and letters between the
two are written in Armenian, however genetically she was at least
part Indian.
Eliza and Theodore had a daughter called Katherine and it is through
an unbroken line of daughters through to Princess Diana that the
young royal has inherited his Indian DNA, which is shared by his
brother Harry.
The Times claims that DNA samples were taken from "two distant cousins"
of the Prince to carry out the tests. The paper quotes Mary Roach,
Princess Diana's maternal aunt, as saying: "I always assumed that I was
part-Armenian so I am delighted that I also have an Indian background."
However because mtDNA travels down the female line neither Prince Harry
not Price William will pass the rare form on to their own descendants,
however other Indian DNA may well continue in the royal line.
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-06-14/prince-william-the-duke-of-cambridges-indian-heritage-revealed-after-dna-test/
From: Baghdasarian