Talk:Myra Gale Brown

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[edit] Cousins

I don't understand why this would have freaked out the English more than the Americans. First-cousin marriage is less stigmatized in Europe than in the US. The classic example is all the interlinked royal families, but it is not exceptional in general. Is it just that this information was unearthed while they happened to be in England?24.131.12.228 19:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were fifth cousins once removed, which hardly makes them blood relations at all.