2. It Is Likely That He Is Your Distant Relative... So Stop Giving Your Ancestor Such A Hard Time
Bizarrely, archaeologists and scientists were able to confirm the body under the car park in Leicester was that of King Richard III by matching his DNA to close descendant Michael Ibsen. Canadian woodworker Ibsen, who designed the lead-line coffin in which the former monarch was re-buried, was Richard III's seven-times great-nephew. Yet he far from the only one of Richard III's relatives still around today - because it is estimated that between 80% and 95% of the English-descended population on the British isles share ancestry with the Plantagenets. So be careful not to insult your great, great, great, great, great, great, great uncle/grandfather/cousin without basis...