One in 20 Britons related to a criminal

ONE in 20 Britons has a convicted criminal in their bloodline, while one in 100 is related to pirates, according to new research.

By The Newsroom

Published 22nd Dec 2011, 00:44 BST

About 3 per cent of the population has links to royalty, said new research from family history website Ancestry.co.uk.