Is Naomi Campbell related to Nelson Mandela?

Question

I heard that Naomi Campbell is Nelson Mandela's granddaughter. Is it true?

Answer 1

No that is not true.  And this is the royalty section.  You might get a better response in "Celebrities or "Politics"

best of luck to you!

Answer 2

yes he is his sister.and she loves sian the weather girl(he married lempit)

Answer 3

yes and tony blair is kate moss' uncle

Answer 4

not heard that one before ,doubt it

Answer 5

......i heard she was related to bing crosby....

Answer 6

No & since neither of them is royalty this is in entirely the wrong category

Answer 7

Isn't she trying to get some murderer out of jail?  Think so.

Answer 8

No it's not true.

"Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie, is a former ballet dancer of Jamaican heritage, who told Arena in 1996 that her daughter's unnamed father is a biracial man of Afro-Caribbean and Chinese descent."

Answer 9

yeah an liam gallaghers related to the pope what you been reading the sunday sport :p

Answer 10

Yes almost certainly.   As there are only 6 billion people in the word it is likely that we are all cousins.

If one were to go back 56 generations (this takes Queen Elizabeth back to her oldest traceable ancestor in about 345 AD for example) one has about 72,000 billion places on the family tree.   Now there are not enough people to fill those places so the same person must be on more than one branch.   As such we are all our own cousins.

Now for NC and NM not to be related, no one on her tree can appear anywhere on his.    Given the small number of people on Earth in 345 AD, it is unlikely to be the case.

Given that the human race began millennia before that, it is unquestionable that they share common ancestry.   The only question is how far back?   The closer two people (or their ancestors) live to each other, the more recent this is likely to be and NC and NM share an African history.

Geneticists speak of a most recent common ancestor who lived anything from 15,000 years to 1,000 years but most likely 5000 years ago.   As such we are all this person's descendants and so every is everyone else's cousin.