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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Hunt-on-for-Prince-Williams-distant-cousins-in-Surat/articleshow/20611810.cms Hunt on for Prince William’s distant cousins in Surat Kounteya Sinha | TNN | Updated: Jun 16, 2013, 05.40 AM IST LONDON: Scientists have launched a hunt for possible distant cousins of Britain's Prince William after it emerged he shared Indian ancestry. A day after DNA results revealed that the young royal carried an Indian gene, scientists said they are now looking to find his distant relatives in Surat in Gujarat. On Friday, scientists announced that the future king of England has Indian blood in him and is a direct descendent of part-Indian Eliza Kewark, who was a house keeper for his great-great-great-great-great grandfather Theodore Forbes, a Scottish merchant who worked for the East India Company in Surat. New genetic evidence has found that Prince William, Duke of Cambridge - second in line to the British throne after his father Prince Charles- is the direct descendant of an Indian woman and that he carries her mitochondrial DNA. The same DNA lineage has also been found in Prince Harry. The scientists said it's through an unbroken maternal line to late Princess Diana from Kewark's daughter, Katherine, that Prince William and his brother Prince Harry inherited the Indian DNA. Born in 1790, Eliza lived in India when it was governed by the East India Company, and is thought to have had Armenian blood because of her surname. Using birth, marriage and death records, the researchers traced two of Eliza's living direct descendants, who are both third cousins of Princess Diana's mother Frances Shand Kydd, and tested samples of their saliva. Mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA is a small piece of DNA, inherited mostly unchanged from a mother to her children. Men inherit it but do not pass it on. Princes William and Harry carry Kewark's markers but will not pass this Indian mtDNA onto their children. Dr Wilson said, "This was independent evidence that there was Indian ancestry. For me, it corroborated the findings from the mtDNA. We've got two different kinds of genetic evidence that are independent from one another and they both corroborate the story. So it really seems that our future king has a little bit of Indian blood". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viRp1V6OV7Y http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/prince-william-kate-middleton-visits-kaziranga-national-park/ British royal couple Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton on Wednesday visited the Kaziranga National Park in a jeep safari. Wearing the Assamese honour scarf ‘Bihuwan’, they sat in an open jeep with security vehicles escorting them into the Bagori range of the world heritage site known for one-horned rhinos. The royal couple had on Tuesday arrived at Tezpur on a two-day visit. After a 90-minute drive from Tezpur Airport, they came to the Diphlu River Lodge in Kaziranga where they were entertained with Assam’s folk dance Bihu and Jhumur dance of the tea tribes. Before the dance performances started, they observed the tradition of offering a ‘horai’ (bell metal plate with a stand) of ‘paan-tambul’ (betal nuts) with ‘dokhina’ (offerings) to the ‘Gurujona’ (God) for peace and prosperity of all. The Duke and Duchess interacted with the dancers, drum players and pepa (local flute) players and Prince William even attempted to blow a pepa. He asked one pepa player Ankur Phukan from the bihu troupe at what age he started playing the instrument. On Wednesday, before setting out on the safari, they soaked in the view from the sight seeing tower of the Diflu River Lodge while having their morning tea. Both the Duke and Duchess are scheduled to visit the Kaziranga Discovery Centre, where the Mark Shand Asian Elephant Learning Centre is situated, to see and know the activities of the Captive Elephant Clinic which completed 4883 cases. The royal couple will also be briefed about efforts to protect the Asian Elephants by the local people of Rong Terang village, considered friends of Mark Roland Shand, a renowned travel writer and conservationist. Shand was the brother of Duchess of Cornwall Camilla and the co-founder of the Foundation of Elephant Family in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaziranga_National_Park