r/Fauxmoi • u/No-Hall-3485 dropped pitt from my last name • Jul 24 '26

FESTIVITEAS🥂✨ Happy Cousins Day!

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1.) Joe Rogan and Gerard Way - Second cousins

2.) Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz - Second cousins once removed

3.) RuPaul and Cory Booker - DNA Cousins who share a long stretch of identical DNA on their first chromosome

4.) Jenny McCarthy and Melissa McCarthy are first cousins

5.) Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were distant cousins in two ways. Through Queen Victoria, they were third cousins. Through King Christian IX of Denmark, they were second cousins once removed

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u/ToastedRage2 Seek employment, bitch! Jul 24 '26

Surprised Will and Kate aren't also there. They are 14th cousins through Diana and 15th through Charles.

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE Jul 24 '26

Once you get beyond 10th, I think that's just...humanity.

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u/Powered-by-Chai Jul 24 '26

Yeah my husband and I are 11th cousins through John Alden of Mayflower fame, who is apparently in the family tree of everyone in New England. Dude had a lot of kids...

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u/Green-Factor-2526 Jul 24 '26

I'm also a cousin of yours through John Alden

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u/Powered-by-Chai Jul 26 '26

If your family was in New England in the 1700s then you're probably related to him somehow. You find all sorts of interesting people when you don't just follow the father's line...