Danny Dyer has been contacted by dead royal relatives beyond the grave since appearing on Who Do You Think You Are?
The actor was told he was a direct descendant of Edward III and connected to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s right-hand man on the hit show eight years ago.
Danny, 46, revealed: “Interestingly, I’m quite a spiritual person and I’ve had messages off of spiritualists that say to me that they get contacted from my ancestors and the way they do it is from the time.
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“So at least three times a day, I will randomly look at my clock and it will be 12.12 or it will be 13.13 or I did it today at 10 past 10. I just looked at the clock and it was 10 past 10.
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“So it gives me a comfort that I feel that my ancestors are maybe looking out for me, a higher power, if you will.
“And I’d like to think that one of my higher powers is Harold Pinter and that’s why he’s a screensaver on me phone.
“Well, I just like having him around me. You know what I mean? I just feel that he was really good for me and I went off the rails when he died, so there’s a connection there.
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“But yeah, I do think that they are maybe looking out for me you know, ‘cause I’ve got some nutty blood. I’m related to a Saint as well.
“Saint Louis the ninth, was it? I went to France. I did a follow on from who do you think you are?
“It’s called Danny Dyer’s Royal Family and then we go right back to William the Conqueror and Rollo the Viking, who’s my last relative that they can trace me back to in 900 whatever.”
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The telly favourite, best known as hardman Mick Carter on EastEnders, told the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast he faced some snobbery after his regal links were discovered.
He added: “You know what? I’ve had a few professors and stuff piss on my parade since.
“People will go, ‘Well, everyone’s related to King Edward III, everybody.’ So, and I go, ‘Well, hold on a minute, because I think I was in series 10, and they’d never found any trail, why has this never come up before?’
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“It goes back to the classism thing. How can someone like me potentially win the first BAFTA for Who Do You Think You Are? as well?
“Although I didn’t get a f***ing BAFTA for it, which is weird. I stood in the queue and all the producers and the director got one, I went, ‘Where’s f***ing mine? It’s my family.’
“I hadn’t watched Wolf Hall until after I learned that he [Cromwell] was my grandfather, 15 times great grandfather.
“The beautiful thing about the whole thing is that his last act before he got his nut chopped off was he made sure that his son, my 14 times great grandfather, married Elizabeth Seymour, sister of Jane, who Henry VIII loved with all his heart.
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“So he didn’t kill his son. Otherwise he would have killed Gregory as well and I wouldn’t be here.
“So the fact that he kept that line going meant that then Gregory had a son and then they had a son and then they had a son and then f*** knows went wrong why I ended up on a council estate.
“You know what I mean? But if he hadn’t have done that before he was killed, then my bloodline, I wouldn’t be here. It’s amazing.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
