Boston Red Sox star Mookie Betts and actress Meghan Markle -- soon to be a member of the Royal Family -- could be distant relatives, according to a report by The Boston Globe.
Betts and Markle, who is to wed Prince Harry May 19 at Windsor Castle, have ancestors from the same part of Alabama, an amateur genealogist told The Globe.
According to Jim McNiff, a retired college professor who had previously traced the roots of Tom Brady back to Boston, found that Betts' great-great grandfather Joseph Betts and Markle's great-great grandfather Jacob Betts were from Madison County, Alabama.