It’s such a small world, isn’t it? Trace your lineage and you could be related to royalty! That’s exactly what the folks at Ancestry.com have discovered for actress Elle Fanning : The Maleficent star, who plays Princess Aurora in the flick, is related to Duchess Catherine, aka Kate Middleton. “This connection comes from another highly interesting ancestor, as they both descend from King Edward I ‘Longshanks,’ who most will know as the King the Scots rebelled against in the film Braveheart ,” says a release from the geneology site.