Royal Wedding: Princess Eugenie And Jack Brooksbank Are Related express.co.uk

The pair are said be cousins via a distant ancestor, according to a family tree dating back to the 1800s – just like Princess Eugenie’s grandparents the Queen and Prince Philip, who are also third cousins.

Thomas Coke, Second Earl of Leicester, who was born in 1822 and died in 1909, is the person who ties the pair together, according to the Business Insider.