Bob Odenkirk had no clue that he comes from a line of royals.

In a clip of an upcoming episode of Discovering Your Roots, obtained by Rolling Stone, host Henry Louis Gates Jr. defined to Odenkirk, 61, that he’s King Charles III’s 11th cousin.

“That’s loopy,” the Higher Name Saul actor stated within the video.

Prior to his revelation, Gates Jr., 73, shared that he traced Odenkirk’s royal roots again 5 generations to Friedrich Carl Steinholz, Odenkirk’s nice grandfather who was born in Germany in 1755. Steinholz was born out of wedlock to Maria Chatharina Bein and the Duke of Plön.

“I’m an American. I’m not a monarchist. I don’t imagine in that,” Odenkirk quipped. “You understand, I really feel prefer it’s slightly twisted. I perceive why society constructed itself round monarchs and leaders, and so they handed them down by generations.”

Odenkirk went on to say he understands that monarchy “goes by each society,” however he believes we’ve gotten to a “higher place with democracy.”

Odenkirk added that “we must always maintain taking place that highway” earlier than joking that he would possibly “change [his] thoughts” after discovering that he was associated to royalty.

Gates Jr. has beforehand revealed loopy connections to celebrities and historic figures.

In January 2023, Edward Norton appeared on a season 9 episode of Discovering Your Roots the place he discovered that Pocahontas was really his 12th great-grandmother.

“I perceive that was household lore [you heard growing up],” Gates Jr. informed Norton, 54, on the time. “Properly, it’s completely true.”

Gates Jr. defined that Norton’s household lineage might be traced again to John Rolfe, an English settler who married Pocahontas. Norton was amazed by the shock connection.

“That is about way back to you possibly can go until you’re a Viking,” the Unimaginable Hulk actor gushed. “Makes you understand what a small piece of the entire human story you might be.”

In the identical episode, Norton additionally found that his third great-grandfather, John Winstead, as soon as owned slaves in accordance to the 1850 census of North Carolina.

“The brief reply is these items are uncomfortable, and you need to be uncomfortable with them, all people ought to be uncomfortable with it,” Norton stated. “It’s not a judgment on you and your personal life, but it surely’s a judgment on the historical past of this nation and it wants to be acknowledged at the start, after which it wants to be contended with.”