Rob Eastaway

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207 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2010 last heard 3 Jun

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More or Less · How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years · 10 May 2013 podcast

It's a lot.

Now, the thing is, of course, that assumes they haven't intermarried in any way.

Well, royalty never intermarries.

But on the other hand, two is probably a low estimate because in those days, two children per couple.

So it was probably more like two, two and a half even.

And the wealthier you were, the more children were likely to make it through to adulthood because they'd have been healthier, eaten better.

Yeah, I mean, if you take the number just up to 2.3, which was the medieval average, then the number whacks up to 17 million.

So it's a huge difference.

You've got a large stock of people likely now to be around who are descendants of those nephews and nieces.

This is very back of the envelope.

If you have English ancestry, you can trace back, obviously, if you're first generation British and you go back to other countries with no connection, then there'll be no link.

But I think it will be a very high number.

And I did see calculations done, very credible ones, based on academic research in the 1970s and beyond, which said that actually almost everyone with English ancestry is related to or descended from Edward III, who I think was Richard's great-great-great, maybe four great-grandfather.

So...

It's sort of plausible that if we're all related to Edward III, then many of us will be related to Richard III too.

We should all get a vote then.

Well, certainly, let's be conservative and say there's maybe a million of us are related to Richard III.

That's, you know, a 50th of the population or so.

So I certainly think to be on the safe side, we might all be related and we should all at least have a chance to vote on Leicester versus York.

More or Less · More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen? · 3 Dec 2012 podcast

Averages are not a bad reflection of what you've done over a whole career, but they do have a number of flaws, especially looking at a shorter period of time.

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