Originally Posted by
ifuseekamy
Very distant, but it just relates back to the fact that nobility are pretty much all related. All the European royals and probably a few politicians will be related too (the Queen's husband, Prince of Greece/Denmark, is her second cousin for example). It's because in American society they have this notion that anyone can become president when all of them come from the same blue blooded background of aristocracy that said notion seems to want to contradict. It's the outcome of rich people keeping it "in the family" in the past.