Prince Harry dating lingerie model cousin
After generations of inbreeding, Britain’s Royal Family appears to finally be getting serious about adding photogenic depth to the family gene pool.
Prince Harry's new GF looks familiar to those who pay attention to ads.
Curiously, Prince Harry is taking a stab at it by dating his lingerie modelling cousin.
Fortunately for any pending mingling of chromosomes, she’s a distant cousin — eight times removed, according to The Telegraph.
Florence Brudenell-Bruce, a blonde like the prince’s mother, will give future queen Kate Middleton a run for her money in the looks department. The British media is already following her every move — one headline alerted the world the young lady wore THREE outfits in one day. And her face appears on a curling iron box.
According to people who keep up with such things, Brudenell-Bruce is a descendant of the seventh Earl of Cardigan, Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, who famously led the Charge of the Light Brigade against the Russians during the Crimean War.
Harry, 26, began dating Brudenell-Bruce, 25, after ending his relationship with Zimbabwean-born Chelsy Davy, according to The Telegraph.
Being a prince has its advantages, it seems.
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wanna
June 30th, 2011
12:04 pm
Man, Chelsy Davy was uuuuuuuuuuuugly. What was he thinking?
Samantha
June 30th, 2011
12:26 pm
That’s disgusting! He’s dating and inbreeding with his cousin…sick!
Mike
June 30th, 2011
12:32 pm
Samantha, I’m pretty sure “eight times removed” means that they have one great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents in common.
The Queen and Prince Phillip share one great-great grandparent: Queen Victoria.
comment
June 30th, 2011
12:35 pm
I thought they only did that in Alabama
comment
June 30th, 2011
12:37 pm
Yeah, Chelsey Davy was a pig. LOL. Your wife is probably a pig.
urban redneck
June 30th, 2011
12:37 pm
i didn’t know prince harry was from the south…………
Treasures Of Goodness
June 30th, 2011
12:40 pm
wow are you serious. That’s so freaking disgusting.
Melvin Wexler
June 30th, 2011
12:45 pm
I had sex with my distant cousin when I was in high school. She went through a very promiscuous period. I took advantage of it. No regrets.
Realist
June 30th, 2011
12:46 pm
Why is he dating at all? Play the field young Prince!
JIMBOB (aka James Robert)
June 30th, 2011
12:53 pm
8 times removed means that one of them is 8 generations higher or lower on the family tree than the other. This seems unlikely.
8th cousins would mean that you have to go up 9 generations to find the exact couple from whom both are descended.
Sharon
June 30th, 2011
12:54 pm
“a blonde like the prince’s mother” – and millions of other women, including his ex girlfriend.
Also the British media needs to stay off ancestry.com.
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oh yeah
June 30th, 2011
1:03 pm
Tap it!!
MeaneyMouse
June 30th, 2011
1:04 pm
Turkey is turkey
Gin is Gin
Cousin’s —-Y is as good as any
1faknd
June 30th, 2011
1:08 pm
Why is this a story? Who really cares???
Lord Terry of Swainsboro
June 30th, 2011
1:08 pm
What a boob in that commercial (Him, not hers). Typically short, egg-faced and plain. He looks like he was the distant second choice for actor in this ad behind Ricky Gervaise.
Hot and Fresh
June 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
I guess this means he’s not going to date Pippa. Can I have her number?
tom
June 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
This is useless without pictures.
Lucio
June 30th, 2011
1:31 pm
This one is very beautiful Harry!!!
becareful
June 30th, 2011
1:36 pm
Wht’s this world coming 2!!! It’s not pretty.
becareful
June 30th, 2011
1:38 pm
Enter your comments here
Ellen
June 30th, 2011
1:38 pm
Prince Harry isn’t handsome! Why should he only date beautiful girls?
becareful
June 30th, 2011
1:38 pm
So, Who cares!!!
sun52shine
June 30th, 2011
1:46 pm
My bet is on Pippa; she is confident, strong, private, professional, layed back, respectful, relaxed in front of the camera, secretive and will never disrespect him in the public. Oh, I forgot she seems to be mature or grown up plus beautiful.
This girl looks spoil and will not adjust well to the line of authority she will subjected too. Plus she is a camera hog, immature and most of all his cousin. Never know when the crazies are going to show up in the lineage.
Bubbalou
June 30th, 2011
1:57 pm
Hey, England and Alabama are about the same in square mileage area. After awhile, one runs out of un-DNA-related suitable mates. Is it not unreasonable to state that neither place is chock full of noteworthy brainiacs within a short amount of time? Will and Kate need not worry. Their kids are safe and Will at least, dodged a bullett.
Too Close
June 30th, 2011
1:58 pm
Eww! I just found out that I’m related to my own brother!
Need-a-lawyer
June 30th, 2011
2:02 pm
If a couple from Alabama get married in Montgomery, then move to New York City and subsequently divorce are they then still legally brother and sister?
comment
June 30th, 2011
2:04 pm
PIPPA WOW!!!!
Pancakes n' Rice
June 30th, 2011
2:04 pm
Are Aunt Jemimah an Uncle Ben married, brother and sister or both? My pantry will never be the same again.
Jack Smith
June 30th, 2011
2:05 pm
8 times removed?? this article is rahtarded!
RedNeck Rick
June 30th, 2011
2:11 pm
Ain’t no lovin’ like lovin’ yer cousin.
Inbreeding
June 30th, 2011
2:17 pm
This is the only area on Earth where the European royals and Appalachia draw a distinct parallel. Okay, well maybe somewhere deep in the Amazon rainforest, but they at least tap different tribes for mates.
pebblebeach
June 30th, 2011
2:18 pm
Cute…she can get it…
Yuk
June 30th, 2011
2:24 pm
The only drawback from dating Prince Harry is having to take Dramamine during intimacy.
Whatever did you mean?
June 30th, 2011
2:31 pm
Hey Sunshine52shine: When you say that Pippa is LAYED back (instead of LAID back), it gives the statement NEW meaning! Whoo hoo! ;O
rid0617
June 30th, 2011
2:53 pm
OMG he’s from Alabama. Aside from that why do we care?
jake's mom
June 30th, 2011
3:01 pm
The guy who figured out she’s “8 times removed” needs to get a life. Seriously
anythings possible
June 30th, 2011
3:26 pm
except shagging your cuzo….unless shes a model and 8 times removed…also ETHICS SAY YOU CAN DATE YOUR FOURTH COUSIN….
ANYTHING BEYOND THIRD COUSIN IS FAIR GAME< BUT MORALLY QUESTIONABLE NONETHELESS! YOU SIMPLY HIT IT ONCE OR TWICE & IF QUESTIONED ABOUT IT SAY YOU DIDNT KNOW & MOVE ON…BUT DATING????THATS A JUDGMENT CALL & SINCE IM NOT 1 to JUDGE-Im not makin the call…
Alan
June 30th, 2011
3:29 pm
If he wasn’t a Prince, she would not even give him the time of day.
As far as she being as beautiful as Kate: Take the makeup off of both of them and Kate would win, easily. Florence, without makeup has only average looks.– A 6 or 7 on a scale of 10.
Kimy
June 30th, 2011
4:26 pm
SHAME! SHAME! NASTY.
Kimy
June 30th, 2011
4:29 pm
Anyone can become blond. All you need is blond dye. She is not a natural believe that!
Cammi317
June 30th, 2011
4:44 pm
LOL @ anything’s possible! Whew! I needed that afternoon laugh!
freenow
June 30th, 2011
5:52 pm
sex with a distant cousin—some of my best kind of fun. Extra wild!!!
Columbus
June 30th, 2011
6:37 pm
an 8th cousin is hardly inbreeding. a 3rd or 4th cousin isnt either. Some ignorant people in this world. We are ALL inbreeders to some extent if you want to be technical. Alabama residents however are infamous for marrying their first and second cousins. brothers, sisters, mom’s dads. grandparents, uncles, aunts….extreme inbredding in Bama!
mateo
June 30th, 2011
7:05 pm
What about kate’s sister?
HENRY
June 30th, 2011
7:46 pm
DAMN THE BRITS…..BUNCH OF IDIOTS……….GO TO A DENTIST
Dodger
June 30th, 2011
8:03 pm
“…will give future queen Kate Middleton a run for her money in the looks department.”
Does she become Queen just ’cause she’s married to the King?
J Frazer
June 30th, 2011
8:10 pm
8 Times is pretty far removed. Many people have probably dated closer than that and never even realized it. Do you really know your family lineage back 7 or 8 generations, and every branch of offspring since than? If he wasn’t a prince no one would know they were cousins.
Fred
June 30th, 2011
8:14 pm
Well they both rank well on the screwable mindless bimbo chart. I doubt he’s contemplating marriage anytime soon……..
Joe Mama
June 30th, 2011
8:53 pm
Princess Flo?
ROFLOL
SuzyQ
June 30th, 2011
8:56 pm
Camilla definitely has inbred.
Northerners Do It To
June 30th, 2011
9:11 pm
Look up the words “Once Removed”. It is a British term and only means
“Back one generation”. So if you have a second cousin whose parent was
back one or two generations, they say Once Removed. It’s not necessary
to say Once Removed – they are your third, fourth, sixth, or eight
cousin. No royality in America or need “follow” upper crust family trees
that the elite Brits have to be connected to. And the lower class Brits
don’t count their family trees. America need not be concerned with that too.
Susan McGuire
June 30th, 2011
9:46 pm
Poor Florence. The relatively nice-looking, intelligent prince is married now…and the only one left is the dumbass one who looks like Ralph Malph from “Happy Days” re-runs.
ff
June 30th, 2011
10:11 pm
i didnt know harry was from san fran
H
June 30th, 2011
10:22 pm
If a man and woman in Alabama are married, and get a divorce, I realize that they are no longer man and wife, but are they still cousins?
Brian
July 1st, 2011
12:02 am
Samantha, get over yourself with thinking that its sick. She’s his 8x removed cousin. basically, with the way the british breed themselves, then give themselves, or get the queen to throw out titles to their leadership, she more than likely is only his cousin in name only, and isnt really related at all, except for a distant way back relative from 8 generations, or approx 480 years, ago. if you can look at it like that, from a purely biological point of view, it isnt sick at all, its just their way of life in the royal family.
Evan Benz
July 1st, 2011
12:19 am
Don’t try and justify dating your cousin !
8 times removed, doesn’t remove them from the family tree, or in this case, the family shrub.
All you have to do is ask yourself : If an over ambitious relative set up the family reunion to end all family reunions , would one or two invitations come to your place of resident ???
Josh
July 1st, 2011
1:09 am
I don’t see how this is such a big deal. Pakistanis often marry their FIRST cousins in arranged marriages. Jews only have a fixed number of tribes. And blacks regularly give birth to babies with IQ’s below 80 – this is either due to drug use, familial ties, or both. Read “Freakonomics” before you bash the last example.
Chemequa
July 1st, 2011
2:55 am
No wonder some of that wacky-zany-crazy stuff……INBREEDING!!!!
Michael Bond
July 1st, 2011
3:51 am
That you have no values [i’m not talking about the manure put forth by fellow tards in the rep… forget it. Not worthy my time or effort.
This you or your handlers shall understand. I strongly suggest you revise this rubbish before you are out of work. Now isn’t the time to get a pink slip.
…and the collective conscious was that gutter press was the main stay of tabloids like the mirror or daily mail! I really strongly advise you fix this.
Be advised, a copy is made of this notice and shall serve as a record of response.
oh well
July 1st, 2011
6:09 am
Melvin Wexler …… been there , done that !
Name (required)
July 1st, 2011
6:12 am
Wow…..Prince Harry is going to have feeble kids if they keep inbreeding. Kinda like the succession of lame UGAs
Darcy
July 1st, 2011
9:27 am
She is not pretty. Models are not pretty. They are so skinny that a they often resemble a skeleton covered in a thin layer of skin. Their faces are very generic, no hint of any ethnicity or anything that makes someone “attractive.” And blonde? Ha-ha-ha I can see dark roots in the curling iron box photo. Real women are infinitely more interesting in and out of bed, just ask any of my boyfriends.
JTA
July 1st, 2011
11:58 am
Thank you James for your comment and explanation. I’m sure it’s still misunderstood. People are so ignorant… a cousin 8 times removed really isn’t even a relative. If a lot of us traced our family history, especially those from smaller cities or towns, you would find the same instance. Probably closer (less removed).
John Brown
July 1st, 2011
12:45 pm
Why does anyone care about these inbred Nazis, anyway(look up Prince Philip, TOTAL nazi)? Their family murdered their mother so they wouldn’t have a Muslim be stepfather to the British Crown, and these 2 young guys act like they’re entitled to the world. Now Darcy, she’s hot. The whole “models are ugly, real women are pretty” argument is nice, she is nevertheles quite attractive. With an unsustainable airbrushed body, but pretty nonetheless. But why do Americans care? We fought a revolution against these rubes. Somebody should finish the job Guy Fawkes started. And yea, JTA, most husbands and wives probably are eighth cousins. Every American President but one descended from King John who signed the Magna Carta. We’re all related. But most of family trees don’t look like a vine like these puds’.
Deskboy
July 1st, 2011
3:02 pm
Not that I care, but didn’t Harry tell some chick at the wedding that she was next? I guess he was just working on a sleepover after party.
And they not only do that in Alabama, hail, they do that in West Virginny, Georgia, Mississippi, and so on
Notdumb
July 1st, 2011
5:24 pm
Typical internet. The genetic probability of 2nd or even 3rd cousins producing offspring with defects is so low that it doesn’t even make a difference, but here we are trolling along with a humorously written article (if you can even call it that) about cousins who probably don’t have enough genetic similarities to be considered related anymore.
Katie
July 1st, 2011
10:16 pm
Susan McGuire-Yours was the post of the day for me. It brought a ton of laughter (still laughing) to my rather-boring life LOL. Even thought I don’t think William is so hot either. They should have gotten those huge buck teeth fixed when he was little. Would have made a hell of a big difference. But at least he’s not a big dufus like Harry (Ralph Malph ROFL).
oh well
July 2nd, 2011
8:28 am
sex with a cousin ? sure , and mine was a lingerie model
Miles
July 2nd, 2011
6:26 pm
You all must be unable to read and comrehend,,,the headline is prince Harry dating lingerie model cousin,, that means she is his WIFES cousin.
Ecnal
July 7th, 2011
3:04 pm
wanna: When the prince was dating Chelsy Davy he was thinking, “breasts”.
left/right? who cares?
July 11th, 2011
1:05 pm
miles? hunh? josh, according to your statistics and your very obvious low, low, low iq- we know your background, dont we?
Alabama
July 14th, 2011
9:53 am
lay off the Alabama jokes people – most of us do not breed within our families!!!!
Ruth Bronstein
July 19th, 2011
10:43 am
The prince who was relatively nice looking and intelligent is married now, and the only one left is the dumbass one who looks like Ralph Malph from “Happy Days”.
Jake Grafton
August 2nd, 2011
10:49 pm
Actually, it turns out that she’s not descended from the 7th Earl of Cardigan of “Charge of the Light Brigade” fame. She’s descended from a cousin of his, who was the 9th Earl of Cardigan.
Also, being 8th cousins don’t really mean anything genetically. Sure, they share an origin somewhere down the line, but they don’t have too many genes in common.