Literally every person in Europe is directly descended from Charlemagne. Literally, not metaphorically

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It's not just Danny Dyer who is related to royalty - we all are, geneticist says

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Danny Dyer was thrilled to find out about his royal links - but he's not the only one CREDIT: JEFF SPICER/GETTY

•  Olivia Rudgard

27 JUNE 2017 • 12:13PM

Being related to royalty is no big deal, a BBC presenter has said, because "literally every person in Europe is directly descended from Charlemagne".

Adam Rutherford, a geneticist who presents the Radio 4 programme Inside Science, said his calculations reveal that almost every Briton is related to the 14th century king Edward III. 

He told an audience at the Chalke Valley History Festival that his team had worked out that the chance that someone born in the 1970s was not related to Edward III was vanishingly small, at 0.0000000000000000000000000001 .

Literally every person in Europe is directly descended from Charlemagne. Literally, not metaphoricallyAdam Rutherford

He said: "I was sitting there, thinking ‘I think I can. I think I can compute this’. I worked with some of my colleages at UCL, and the question became what is the probability that anyone is directly descended from Edward III?"...