Does everyone have their popcorn ready for Harry & Meghan?

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I think a lot of people in this thread project their family values onto the royal family. I can’t remember which thread it was but there was one (maybe holiday related) where CC members were talking about being estranged from their children/grandchildren, not liking their child’s partner, or that they hadn’t seen their relatives in years.

This new thread reminded me of the discussion here.

Are you close to your cousins?

In today’s WJS there was an article about the difficulty of passing down shared control of a business that said in part Only about a quarter of Americans say they are very or extremely close to a cousin, and today cousins tend to live far apart. Family size is declining, which means people have fewer cousins. Research suggests cousin relationships are often built at large family gatherings—weddings, holidays, reunions—and as older generations disappear, so can those regular meetups. https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/cousin-problem-family-estate-assets-266b30e4 Ignoring the main point of the article about sharing a family business, I’m wondering what people on CC would say about their cousins. I only have 2 1st cousins who live on the other side of the country and I’ve never met them. I have perhaps 10 2nd cousins but I only met most a handful of times if that growing up and some I only found when building a family tree. So we have a genetic and paper connection but they aren…