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Duchess of Cambridge is author's distant cousin
Middleton and Jane Austen are 11th cousins, six times removed, according to genealogy website Ancestry.
The Duchess and the author share a relative all the way back to the 15th century, Henry Percy, the 2nd Earl of Northumberland.
It was revealed recently that Middleton is also related to director Guy Ritchie.