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The Duchess of Sussex was linked to Prince Harry’s family before they met in 2016. A database of palace employees suggests Meghan’s great-great-great grandmother worked as a cook at Windsor Castle.
The relative, Mary Bird, was only a teenager who she became a royal staffer – some 160 years before Meghan and Harry wed.
The database showed a worker called M Bird, who appeared in the Windsor Castle Weekly Disbursement Book in 1856 – around the same time Meghan’s great-great-great grandmother Mary would have worked there.
Mary married Thomas Bird, an Irish shoemaker who served as an officer in the British Army.
The couple moved to Malta with the Army.
Once there, they started their own family – in 1862 – having two children.
Mary moved to Canada with her children after Thomas died – before settling in New Hampshire, USA.
Meghan visited Malta in 2015 for a shoot for fashion magazine ELLE UK – and described the island as a place of “bucolic bliss”.
She told the magazine: “To come somewhere where you so quickly settle in to feeling welcomed is really special.
“I started to say, ‘Oh my gosh I do sort of blend in’.”
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