Diana is a thirteenth cousin once removed from George W. Bush. John Dryden of Canons Ashby is the 14th grandfather of George W. Bush through his daughter Bridget Dryden. John Dryden of Canons Ashby is the 13th great-grandfather of Diana by his son Erasmus Dryden. [1]
Prior to her marriage, much research into her ancestry was conducted by both British and American Genealogist. Including the late David Geoffrey Williamson of Debrett's Peerage. And Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitweisner, the last two author's of 'American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales' 1984. A further study of her entire known ancestry has been compiled by Richard Evans; volume one covering thirteen generations, will be published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society probably in 2007. Mssrs. Roberts and Reitwiesner identified 300 major figures in American history distantly related to the Princess through her roughly 25 Great Migration New England forebears (and various ancestors in the mid-Atlantic, especially N.J.). Mr. Roberts added over fifty more in the first two chapters of his Notable Kin, Volume One (1998). It was much publicized that these distant kinsmen included Hollywood screen legend Humphrey Bogart (who was her 7th cousin), and the two presidents Adams, Fillmore, Hayes, Cleveland, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, F.D. Roosevelt, Nixon, and the two Bushes (plus first ladies Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Wallace Truman, and Anne Francis Robbins "Nancy Davis" Reagan. Actor Oliver Platt is more closely related; both he and Diana, Princess of Wales are descendants of Frances Work, a late 19th-century American heiress who was briefly the wife of the Hon. James Burke Roche, later 3rd Baron Fermoy.
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