She’s played Queen Victoria twice on the big screen and is considered British acting royalty. But Dame Judi Dench recently discovered she has ancestral ties to real-life nobility too!
Indeed, the 86-year-old actress, who also won an Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, was quite overwhelmed to learn that in the 1500s, her 10-time great-aunt was lady-in-waiting to the reigning Queen of Denmark.
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