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Mookie Betts is an one hell of a ballplayer. On his day, the LA Dodgers star can take on any opponents on his own. Such is the class he possesses from the plate. Betts being a serial hitter is not a secret anymore. But do you know that the Dodgers slugger shares an ancestral relation to the British Royal Family?

Yes! Not many people might know this, but Mookie Betts and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, are ancestral relatives. Not long but just three years ago, when Betts used to play for the Boston Red Sox, he, for the first time, met the former actress, Meghan Markle.

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When talking about Betts, the Dodgers slugger is one of the finest hitters in the game. And currently, he is having his career-best season in the ongoing MLB season.

The time when Mookie Betts met his ancestral relative and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle

Back in 2019, when the Red Sox played clashed with their arch-rivals New York Yankees in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Britain’s Prince Harry, and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, paid their visit to the game.

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Since Betts and Markle had already found out about their ancestral relationship, the two greeted by hugging each other.?

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Per Fox News, Betts admitted he did not expect something like this. ?I saw on television that they were getting married. But I had no idea we were related .. That’s not something you expect to hear. But it?s interesting,? Mookie Betts said.

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Noted genealogist, Jim McNiff, discovered this unknown relation between Betts and Markle. Betts also shared some information about his ancestral place in Virginia.

?I know from family stories that our relatives were from Virginia and settled in Alabama. That?s were I?m from,? he added. ?There were Betts all over that area. They worked on farms, things like that.?

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When talking about the Royal Family, Queen Elizabeth II breathed her last a couple of days ago. May her soul rest in peace!