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Is it normal to be related to royalty?
Two separate royal lines on both sides of my family, a couple generations back. I'm not sure what to make of it. Is this common for most people?
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It's actually uncommon, but that means your special! Just think if you we're born a few decades ago (or a lot more) you could be a princess/prince! Now that is awesome my friend!
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That's probably uncommon, but it's worth it to remember that the further in the past you look, the sheer number of people you are related too gets amazingly large. Your parents are 2, then your grandparents make it 6, and your great grandparents 14... In that way, your number of direct ancestors (don't even worry about cousins or aunts and uncles!) basically doubles about every 25 years.
Which means if you got back 500 years, you have potentially 1 million ancestors, and if you got back 1,000, you'll find you have 500 billion ancestors. (Now, some of those ancestors would be duplicates - like if two cousins married, at some point they'd have shared a set of grandparents or great-grandparents, but you still get the basic idea.) So yeah, likely some of them were royalty, or famous writers, or something notable like that. Naturally, people really only bother to talk about the few really cool people among the many, that are descended from. Add to those basic mathematics the fact that royalty was notorious for marrying off closely related relatives, and yes, it becomes more likely for someone with one royal ancestor, to actually have many royal ancestors!
So yes, depending on which royal families they are, it could be a bit uncommon, but not amazingly so.
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If you're asking if its common to be related back to royalty on both sides only 2 generations back, no. Most people can't claim that. However experts say that all the humans on the earth go back to a handful of original families, so that in hundreds or thousands of times removed, it's possible that all of us were in some way related to 'royal blood' or famous personalities in history.
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