He has desperately cultivated a tough guy image complete with mockney accent and obsession with the underworld.
But the true extent of Guy Ritchie's privileged background has been revealed - showing he is actually descended from royalty.
Madonna's former husband has always been accused of playing down his high society background. The 41-year-old, whose family fortune is worth more than £20million, is a distant descendent of Edward I according to documents found by ancestry website findmypast.com.
The site claims information on the 1911 census, which has been published online for the first time, also shows he is the great, great grandson of renowned Major General Edward McLaughlin who lived in stately home Byron Hall in Worthing. The 1911 census also showed actor Jude Law is descended from a family of bakers.
The 36-year-old, who stars as Dr Watson in the forthcoming Sherlock Holmes film, is the great-grandson of William Law, who is recorded in 1911 as a master baker.
He lived with his wife, five children and two servants in a nine-bedroom house in Brixton, South London.
Debra Chatfield, of findmypast.com, said: 'Being a family historian is a bit like being a detective, as it's all about piecing together clues from relatives' memories and locating official records, to discover who your ancestors were and how they lived.
'It is now possible for genealogists to find details about their family, including where their ancestors lived, what they did for a living, if they had servants or siblings and who their neighbours were.'
The census from 1901 shows the Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, may have begun a relationship with a woman called Jean Leckie before the death of his wife Louise in 1906.
But the true extent of Guy Ritchie's privileged background has been revealed - showing he is actually descended from royalty.
Madonna's former husband has always been accused of playing down his high society background. The 41-year-old, whose family fortune is worth more than £20million, is a distant descendent of Edward I according to documents found by ancestry website findmypast.com.
The site claims information on the 1911 census, which has been published online for the first time, also shows he is the great, great grandson of renowned Major General Edward McLaughlin who lived in stately home Byron Hall in Worthing. The 1911 census also showed actor Jude Law is descended from a family of bakers.
The 36-year-old, who stars as Dr Watson in the forthcoming Sherlock Holmes film, is the great-grandson of William Law, who is recorded in 1911 as a master baker.
He lived with his wife, five children and two servants in a nine-bedroom house in Brixton, South London.
Debra Chatfield, of findmypast.com, said: 'Being a family historian is a bit like being a detective, as it's all about piecing together clues from relatives' memories and locating official records, to discover who your ancestors were and how they lived.
'It is now possible for genealogists to find details about their family, including where their ancestors lived, what they did for a living, if they had servants or siblings and who their neighbours were.'
The census from 1901 shows the Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, may have begun a relationship with a woman called Jean Leckie before the death of his wife Louise in 1906.
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