2024-01-04 21:18:44
Time.news – New Zealand actor Russell Crowe is sure he is descended from Simon Fraserthe 11th Lord Lovat and the last beheaded in the United Kingdom.
As the artist published in It is said that when Fraser discovered this, he began to laugh, at which point he was executed and thus became responsible for the expression “laughing out loud”.
Simon Fraser (1667-1747) was sentenced to death for high treasonfor taking part in the Jacobite rebellion, which wanted to restore James II Stuart and his descendants to the throne of England.
On the other hand, Crowe also shared his discovery that the father of one of his great-great-grandfathers on his mother’s side was theItalian Luigi Ghezzi, who went to New Zealand in 1864 after meeting Mary Ann Curtain, his ex-wife, in Cape Town, South Africa. He admitted that he still has a long way to go in exploring his genealogy, as the Irish origins revealed by DNA tests carried out by some of his close relatives are not yet known. However, he indicated that he had already discovered “Norwegian, Italian, Scottish and Maori connections” in his family history.
“It’s nice to finally discover the Italian connection that, despite having seen a lot of Italy, comes from places I’ve never been,” he concluded.
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