Celebrities with family ties to royalty

Ellen DeGeneres is a cousin of both Kate Middleton and the late Queen Elizabeth II. Now, we have to add that she is separated by 15 and 19 generations of these respective families.

Benedict Cumberbatch appears to be a descendant of King Richard II of England. He is also reportedly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Who knew? Actress and director Angelina Jolie is Queen Elizabeth's 26th cousin. Her kinship reportedly comes from the side of Mary of France, the daughter of King Philip II.

Beyoncé is a queen anyhow, but as a descendant of Henry II of England, she is also Queen Elizabeth's 25th cousin.

This Scottish actress is reportedly 19 generations removed from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.

Tom Hanks descended from King John of England, which also makes him a distant cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth.

Brad Pitt is a direct descendant of King Henry II of England. So when Pitt and Angelina were married, they formed a real noble family!

The actress is Queen Elizabeth's 19th cousin thanks to her ancestor Alexander Spotswood, who was a British army officer.

Uma Thurman is the late Queen's 21st cousin. She is descended from King Edward I of England, remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots," who ruled from 1272 to 1307.

Hugh Grant descended from the House of Tudor, specifically from King Henry VII and also James IV, who was King of Scotland between 1488 and 1513.

The actress is allegedly a descendant of Edward III of England and a 19th cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

This means that Maggie's younger brother, the actor Jake Gyllenhaal, is also the late Queen's cousin.

Married to a Welsh actress (Catherine Zeta Jones), Michael Douglas is actually the late queen's 19th cousin.

The Scottish star of 'Game of Thrones' not only has royal blood, but she literally grew up in a castle. Her mother is related to King Charles II, while her father is actually a chief of the Scottish Leslie clan.

Reportedly, the actor is the late Queen Elizabeth's 20th cousin, as the two share a great-grandfather from 19 generations back.

The 'Game of Thrones' actor has royal blood in real life too: he is related to King Charles II.

The actress's ancestors include King Henry IV of France.

The Delevingnes are known for their aristocratic ties. Cara Delevingne's great-grandfather on her father's side was Hamar Greenwood, the first Viscount of Greenwood. Jane Sheffield, Delevingne's grandmother, was Princess Margaret's maid of honor.

When going over the British actor's family tree, you will finally end up with King James II of Scotland.

In 'The King's Speech,' she was a convincing royal. In real life, her family tree includes the politician Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter and Violet Bonham Carter, the daughter of Prime Minister HH Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.

It turns out that the Duchess of Cambridge's and Redmayne's families crossed paths three generations ago. Reportedly, the actor's great-grandfather, Richard Redmayne, worked in a coal mine alongside Kate Middleton's great-great-grandfather, John Harrison.

Even before marrying the prince, she was already a little bit royal. She is said to be a descendant of Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. Meghan's twelfth great-grandmother, Elizabeth Hildyard, was Seymour's second cousin.

Tom Hiddleston's great-great-grandfather, Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, the 1st baronet, was a shipbuilder.

The royal connection is said to come from her father Richard Hilton's side, making her the late Queen's 20th cousin.

Christopher Guest, multimedia artist and husband of Jamie Lee Curtis, is the 5th Baron of Haden-Guest. That means his family once sat in the House of Lords.

'Saturday Night Live' comedian Bill Hader is related to King Edward I of England and Charlemagne (Charles the Great).

Dakota Fanning's 22nd great-grandfather was King Edward III of England. It's not difficult to imagine her historical ties to royalty when you see the actress in her outfit from 'The Alienist.'

If Dakota Fanning is related to royalty, then so is her younger sister Elle. As a result, she must have felt really at home in her role as Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the Hulu series 'The Great.'

Madonna is not just the Queen of Pop declared by music lovers, she is also a descendant of a prominent 17th-century French-Canadian family.

Director Guy Ritchie may have been married to the Queen of Pop, but without Madonna, he already had family ties to royalty. Ritchie and the Princess of Wales happen to be sixth cousins, and they are even friends. In fact, the director attended Kate's wedding to Prince William in 2011. (He arrived with his new partner, Jacqui Ainsley.)

As it turns out, the late Princess Diana of Wales was actually George W. Bush's 11th cousin.