Prince Harry's trysts with his new love:Queen approve

Family tree showed that blue-blooded blonde Florence Brudenell-Bruce, 25, is an eighth cousin of the 26-year-old royal.

Brudenell-Bruce's links to Harry, Princess Diana and even Prince Charles' second wife, Camilla, can be traced back to the 18th century.

A family tree revealed that as well as being an eighth cousin of her new beau, she is also a distant cousin of both Diana and Camilla.

The common factor in the aristocratic web is the Honourable Sir Edward Walpole, the son of Britain's first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole.

Sir Edward, who died in 1784, had a daughter, Maria, who married into the royal family.

Queen’s grandson has been secretly seeing lingerie model Florence Brudenell-Bruce for four weeks, it has emerged.

Harry’s seven-year on-off relationship with Zimbabwean-born Chelsy Davy has finally come to an end. And the Apache helicopter pilot has just ‘started dating’ 25-year-old Miss Brudenell-Bruce, sources confirmed, with private trysts thought to have taken place at her £400,000 Notting Hill flat, in West London.

The pair seem to have plenty in common – including family. They are, in fact, eighth cousins.

One might argue that anyone who has the name Florence Anne-Marie Brudenell-Bruce bestowed upon them has a certain obligation to live up to such a splendid moniker. To her credit, the lady in question has dutifully endeavoured to do just that in her 25 years.

She has dated the Formula 1 racing driver Jenson Button, she has starred in a Bollywood movie, she has posed for risqué modelling shots in her underwear and even lain herself on a mortuary slab in the name of art for a forthcoming episode of TV detective drama Lewis.

She is beautiful – how could a woman with such a title be plain? – aristocratic and impeccably mannered – and to her friends, she is known as ‘Flee’, which suggests a spiritual, otherworldly dimension to her character.

It is doubtful that anyone who knows her is remotely surprised to learn, if reports are correct, that she is stepping out with Prince Harry. The only surprise might be that it has taken her so long to land him.

Last week, at a posh pre-Wimbledon party, Florence confirmed she had split from her latest boyfriend, Henry St George, who like Flee, sounds like a character from a Barbara Cartland novel.