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He looks a bit odd and has a lust for power.

But that’s not all US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has in common with notorious medieval monarch Richard III.

It turns out the two are related.

The hunchback king – who Shakespeare had utter the immortal words “my kingdom for a horse” – is a distant cousin of the billionaire politician with the questionable hairstyle.

Ancestry website MyHeritage.com also discovered that Hillary Clinton is a cousin of the king.

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Which means the presidential rivals are related. Keeping it in the family, then.

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The pair are direct descendants of the 1st Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt, who was Richard III's great-great uncle.

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The remains of the last Plantagenet king were discovered under a Leicester car park.

Dr Turi King, the University of Leicester scientist who identified Richard III's DNA, said that millions of people are related to Richard III.

Another relative is actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who will portray Richard III in the upcoming BBC drama 'The Hollow Crown.'

Cumberbatch was found to be a third cousin, 16 times removed.