American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales

by Gary Boyd Roberts, William Addams Reitwiesner

Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales had genealogical links to this country. Not only was she one-eighth American, but she also had ancestors who lived in six of the original thirteen colonies, near relatives throughout this country, several hundred distant kinsmen well known in American history, and probably between twenty and thirty million living distant American cousins, including most people named Strong, Hibbard, Newbold, Coggswell, Holton, Clapp, and Waldo, and many named Hart, Parke, Morgan, Stanton, Avery, Lyman, Hunt, Tuttle, Dennison, and Huntington. This work will make it possible for the reader to determine if he or she has any relationship with the Princess.

4 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1984

Reviews

[Michael Smith]

It should come as no surprise that the late Princess Diana had strong American connections through her Spencer heritage and Roberts skillfully outlines the most important and useful links among her estimated 20 million living American relatives. Di had ancestors in six of the thirteen colonies, so non-New Englanders need not despair. The principal author is well known for his work at the New England Historic Genealogical Society and this not-large volume is crammed with useful gateway ancestors in abbreviated and modified Register format.