The tree of life
BACK in 2016, Danny Dyer, an East-enders actor, featured on family-history TV programme Who Do You Think. Famously, he discovered—as he unscrolled a large, hand-drawn family tree—that his great-grandfather 22 times over was Edward III, leaving him stunned and half the viewers raising their eyebrows. That was until various experts pointed out that the vast majority of Britons alive today are related in some way to the 14th-century king, who sired 13 children. Adam Rutherford, the geneticist, estimates that the chances of anyone alive today being related to Edward III are slim.
