Johnny Cash associated to King Charles and Queen impressed a tune of his

May 06, 2023 at 3:39 AM

A lot of well-known individuals are associated to the Royal household, together with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In a 2008 episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, he found that he was a descendant of King George II, making him a distant relative of King Charles III – however some are extra shocking than others.

Johnny Cash, who died 20 years in the past, was additionally associated to The King on his father’s facet.

According to the Genealogy web site Geni, the road goes as follows, Johnny Cash, his father Raymond Cash, his father Rev William Henry Cash, his mom Pheletia White Cash (Taylor), her father John Taylor, his sister Mary Ann Micklebuary, her husband Henry Mickleborough, his father Henry Mickleborough, his sister Jane Daniel – after which the road descends to The Queen as follows.

Jane Daniel’s daughter Jane Montague, her son John Montague, his son Henry Brown Montague, his son William Latane Montague, his daughter Alice Warfield, her daughter Bessie Wallis Warfield. Now the latter married Earl Winfield Spencer Jr in 1916, earlier than divorcing in 1927. She then married Ernest Aldrich Simpson in 1928 making her new title, one Wallis Simpson.

The American socialite was famously the lover of David aka Edward, Prince of Wales, who succeeded his father King George V as British monarch in 1936. However, King Edward VIII brought about a constitutional disaster as he proposed to Mrs Simpson, a twice-divorced American. In order to marry Mrs Simpson, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and the couple grew to become the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Now persevering with Cash’s distant relation to King Charles III, the road now crosses from the American Wallis Simpson by marriage to the British Edward VIII. The monarch’s quick reign was succeeded by his brother Bertie aka King George VI within the yr of three kings and his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, adopted him upon his dying in 1952. And then her son King Charles III ascended to the throne final yr after her document 70 years upon it.

This means The King is the Country singer’s third nice uncle’s first cousin 5 occasions eliminated’s husband’s nice nephew by way of Wallis Simpson. But do you know that the late Queen impressed the writing of the nation singer’s The Man Comes Around?

The tune Cash wrote and recorded not lengthy earlier than his dying in 2003 is in regards to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and a part of the lyrics have been impressed by a dream he had of The Queen. In it, he remembers assembly her in Buckingham Palace and she or he stated, “Johnny Cash, you’re like a thorn tree in a whirlwind”, which he discovered references to in The Bible and helped grow to be the premise for The Man Comes Around.

The late singer even travelled to London in 1953 for his distant relative’s Coronation when he was within the Air Force, though they by no means met on this life.