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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/59905/full/59905/kate-middleton-jewish-or-not/ <br /><br /> <b>Kate Middleton: Jewish or not?</b> <br /> Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | by rachel leibold <br /><br /><div class="default" style="width: 249px;"><img alt="kate_middleton_348" height="348" src="/images/uploads/blog_art/0110/kate_middleton_348.jpg" title="kate_middleton_348" width="249" /> <div class="caption">Future (Jewish?) royal Kate Middleton (photo courtesy of celebgalz.com)<br /></div> </div> <p>Is Kate Middleton Jewish?</p> <p>I was intrigued to learn that the future princess' mother was born Carole Goldsmith. Could Prince William possibly be marrying an MOT - and how would that sit with the House of Windsor?</p> <p>Technically, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2275116/" target="_blank">according to Slate magazine</a>, royals can only be removed from the line of succession if they marry a Roman Catholic - so Jews are still a-ok. But as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, I think the queen would sleep a little better at night if her line married Anglicans or similar.</p> <p>Sadly, according to fairly definitive online source <a href="http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=307" target="_blank">JewornotJew.com</a>, even if there are Jews in Kate's family tree, at least five generations of the Goldsmith clan have been married in churches, so if there was any Jewish link (and I have a hunch there was...) it was lost long ago. Still, it's nice to think that there might possibly be a couple drops of Jewish blood in the royal family for many generations to come - even if they won't exactly be hosting a seder at Buckingham Palace.</p> <p>There may be, however, at least one Jewish connection to the royal wedding next year: Elizabeth Emanuel, the Jewish fashion designer who created Lady Diana's '80s-tastic wedding dress for her 1981 wedding to Prince Charles. <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/41340/princess-diana’s-designer-elizabeth-emanuel-tipped-royal-wedding" target="_blank">The Jewish Chronicle reports</a> that bookmakers are giving 5-to-1 odds on Emanuel being tapped to design Kate's dress.</p>

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