Both men can trace their roots to royalty

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 28, 1996 | Copyright information

President Clinton and Bob Dole are related and both have royal blood, but Clinton has more, British genealogists said.

Each man can trace his ancestry to King Henry III and Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, according to Burke's Peerage, a publishing house that traces the lineage of royal and noble families.

But Clinton has more royal blood than Dole because he is directly descended from King Robert I of France and is related to today's British royal fa...

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