article_snippet: Professor Schürer said that the pair are second cousins, 16 times removed.
article_snippet: Professor Kevin Schürer - the historian who confirmed the identity of former king remains when they were discovered in a Leicester car park - said that the pair are second cousins, 16 times removed .
article_snippet: A family tree showing how the actor and former Plantagenet monarch are related is pictured. 
article_snippet: Professor Schürer first announced a link between the actor and former Plantagenet monarch earlier this year, but at the time said that the actor and former Plantagenet monarch were third cousins.
article_snippet: Professor Schürer first announced a link between the actor and the king earlier this year, but at the time said that the actor and the late king were third cousins.
highlights_snippet: Actor is as closely related to former king as the Queen, it has been claimed .
  
highlights_snippet: But at the time Professor Schürer said they were third cousins and this has been revised .
  