Like most celebs who who live in estates in the English countryside, Madonna has a genealogist, and he and Madonna are fleshing out her family tree with long-lost descendants and living relations. If Prince Charles is still recording phone calls at the palace, we’d love to hear the conversation when Madge called Camilla to let her know they’re distantly related. First the shock to know Madonna had her number, then the shame that she might be blood. Then there was that call to Celine Dion in Las Vegas. Genealogist William Adams Reitwiesner explains how any of this is possible:

“Camilla and Madonna are both descended from Zacharie Cloutier, who lived from 1617 to 1708. And Camilla and Celine descend from Jean Guyon, who lived from 1617 to 1708. Both Jean and Zacharie died in Chateau-Richer, Quebec. Because of their unusual French-Canadian ancestry, they are all blood relations. Madonna is absolutely fascinated by this.”