DNA testing has revealed Prince William will become Britain's first king to have proven Indian ancestry. <\/p>\n
Genetic experts have found a direct lineage between the Duke of Cambridge and a part-Indian woman called Eliza Newark. <\/p>\n
She was a housekeeper for his great-great-great-great-great grandfather Theodore Forbes, a Scottish merchant who worked for the East India Company in Surat, a port north of Bombay. <\/p>\n
They had a daughter called Katherine - and it is through an unbroken maternal line to the prince's mother, Princess Diana, that the young royal and his brother Prince Harry have inherited the Indian DNA. <\/p>\n
The research was carried out by BritainsDNA, a genetic ancestry testing company. <\/p>\n
It showed the second in line to the throne was carrying Eliza's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) - a small piece of DNA inherited mostly unchanged from a mother to her children. <\/p>\n
Scientists said it was \"very likely\" that Prince William's heirs will also carry a small proportion of Indian DNA from Eliza, whose father may have been of Armenian descent. <\/p>\n
Born in 1790, she lived in India when it was governed by the East India Company, and is thought to have had Armenian blood because of her surname. <\/p>\n
Dr Jim Wilson, a genetics expert at the University of Edinburgh and chief scientist at BritainsDNA, said it was the fact that she was an Armenian living in Bombay that intrigued him. <\/p>\n
He said: \"I was wondering if it was possible she was Indian. What was an Armenian doing in Bombay? That's what got me interested.\" <\/p>\n
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