OMG! Kate Middleton is a distant cousin of Pride And Prejudice author Jane Austen

And she's not Kate and sister Pippa's only famous relative

Kate Middleton has found her Mr Darcy in Prince William

Prince William's new wife Kate Middleton has a great British writer in her family tree.

She's a distant cousin of Pride And Prejudice author Jane Austen.

Genealogy website ancestry.com claims the new Duchess' 16th great-grandfather Henry Percy is also romantic novelist Jane's 10th great-grandfather, making them 11th cousins, 6 times removed.�

'Finding this connection between the Duchess of Cambridge and Jane Austen is very exciting since, in many ways, Catherine is the modern Jane Austen heroine: a middle class girl marrying the future King of England,' family historian Anastasia Harman tells Us Weekly.

'Jane Austen may have written about happily-ever-after but it seems Catherine has found a nonfiction hero to spend her life with - far past the epilogue.'

But the famous connections don't stop there - Kate, 29, and her sister Pippa, 27, are also distantly related to US chat show host Ellen DeGeneres.

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