We have all heard of the actress Brooke Shields. What you may not know about her is her family tree or what we would call her "mosaic" is pretty impressive. Hanging from her family tree are the likes of Charlemagne, El Cid, William the Conqueror, five popes and the royal houses of virtually every European country. Before you think there is something special about her genealogy think about this.

Experts now say that even without a documented connection to some notable ancestor, the odds are virtually one-hundred percent that every person on Earth is descended from one royal person or another.[1] It works the other way as well by the way. Anyone who had children more than a few hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today - quite a few of them famous. For example, King …