royal family connections stretch much further back than that. While Meghan’s family had previously said that her great-great-great grandmother, Mary Bird worked at Windsor Castle as a maid, the Mirror reported.
A database of Royal Household Staff revealed that she actually worked as a cook around 160 years agoIt showed that a worker called M.
Bird, appeared in the 1856 Windsor Castle Weekly Disbursement Book. According to the Express, this would have around the same time that Meghan’s ancestor would have been living in the UK.
Meghan's great-great-great-grandmother later married Thomas Bird, an Irish shoemaker who served as an officer in the British Army.
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