As the researchers prodded into Shields’s past, they discovered she was directly related to King Henry IV.
Henry IV is the 15th great-granduncle of England’s current monarch, Charles III, according toBritroyals.
researchers reported was a very distant cousin, generations upon generations removed.
It seems Brooke Shields has quite the noble relatives and a few notable aristocratic ones, too.
Brooke Shields' grandmother was a princess
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However, her paternal grandmother had a much more lavish upbringing.
Though her royal lineage is somewhat of a tangled web, the Italian princess certainly came from wealth.
She continued living amongst the upper echelons of society when she came to America in the 1930s.
Eventually, she married Frank Shields in 1940.
The top-ranking tennis player and actor is Shields' grandfather.
However, he and the heiress divorced 10 years later, in 1950.
Achieving fame early on, Teri and the “Sahara” actor were likely pretty well off.
He also started a real estate firm in Florida, Frank Shields Associates.
The Sunshine State would ultimately be where he retired with his second wife and their three children.
However, Shields didn’t become a stranger to her father and her half-siblings.
Shields has never lauded her royal relations, and maybe for good reason.
Genealogists note that almost everyone can trace their roots back to someone noble.
“Millions of people have provable descents from medieval monarchs,” professor Mark Humphrys toldThe Washington Post.
Shields just might have a few more royal branches than the rest of us.
