Revealed: William's Indian ancestry

Mario Ledwith

DNA testing has revealed that Prince William will become the first British monarch of Indian ancestry.

A clear genetic line has been drawn between the Duke of Cambridge and a half-Indian woman, potentially marking him as the first King whose bloodline is descended from the country.

Analysis of saliva samples on relatives of Prince William revealed the link between the second in line to the throne and a distant relative from his mother’s family.

Doomed Indian Love Story Had Happy End for the Daughter

David Brown

 



It was the anguished plea of a desperate wife and mother as Eliza  Forbes wrote: “Our beloved Kitty and Alexander thank God they are in good health and often hope to see their beloved father.”

The letter was addressed to Theodore Forbes, a wealthy Scottish  merchant who had made his fortune in India in the early 19th century.

Eliza’s appeal was the culmination of their romantic yet tumultuous  love story, which was ultimately doomed by the social attitudes to  race and marriage in colonial India. Their descendant is now second in line to the British throne.