“Charlemagne is your 38th great-grandfather,” Gates said to Stone. “The first Holy Roman Emperor. He was a mean dude.” Stone’s mouth gaped open in dismay as she slowly processed the ...

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Sharon Stone was left 'completely stunned' by the revelation that she is descended from Charlemagne – the former king who transformed Europe. During her appearance on PBS's show 'Finding Your ...

Join Tom and Dominic for this next instalment on the Franks and the rise of Charlemagne.

Historians no longer speak dismissively of the ‘Dark Ages’, that deep trench between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the emergence of the city-states ... was conflated into a single ...

In A.D. 814, Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne died in Aachen in present-day Germany. In 1547, England’s King Henry VIII died and was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.

During her appearance on the show, Stone got an impressive surprise when host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that, not only is she related to European royalty, but she's related to none other than ...