By Perviz Walji for The Guardian Express – Evidence is mounting that Britain’s Prince William may have distant cousins and relatives in the state of Gujarat in India.
According to media reports, DNA tests have revealed that Prince William has a sliver of Indian ancestry.
Researchers at Britain’s DNA, a genetic testing company that explores British, Irish. and Scottish ancestry, think that Prince William’s distant cousins and relatives may be in the Indian city of Surat in the state of Gujarat.
They disclosed that Prince William’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Eliza Kewark, was of Indian origin. In 1812, researchers say, Kewark gave birth to Prince Williams’s great, great, great, great grandmother, Katharine Scott Forbes.
Two of Kewark’s direct descendants supplied DNA to the Scottish-based company. Tests showed that Prince William carries Kewark’s mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Mitochondrial DNA is a small piece of DNA inherited mostly unchanged from a mother to her children.
via Prince William’s distant cousin a Gujarati in India? | The Guardian Express.
Perviz Walji is the author of Africa’s Fading Echoes: Tales from an Enigmatic Continent.
Ms. Walji was born and lived the early part of her life in Tanzania. She currently lives in the United States and has worked in writing, editing, production, and other media-related positions both in print and broadcast. Although she migrated from East Africa many decades ago, the sights and sounds of the region will forever echo in her soul.
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