When Camilla Parker-Bowles married Prince Charles on 9 April 2005 in Windsor, she brought some Percheron blood to the British royal family.

To find the trace of the Percheron ancestors of Camilla, it is not necessary to cross the English Channel but to cross the Atlantic and to join Canada as William Coutts Keppel did it , one of the great-great-grandfathers of Camilla, born in London on April 15, 1832.

William Coutts Keppel married Sophia Mary MacNab on November 15, 1855 in Hamilton (Ontario-Canada). Sophia was a descendant of Marie Josèphe Guyon born in Grondines in Quebec on October 13, 1715 and whose three great-grandparents were Percheron emigrants:

 • Jean Guyon, baptized at Saint-Jean Church in Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne, France) on August 1, 1619, son of the pioneers Jean Guyon and Mathurine Marie Robin, the direct ancestors of Celine Dion, that makes Camilla a cousin of Celine Dion
 • Zacharie Cloutier, also baptized at Saint-Jean Church in Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne, France) on August 16, 1617, son of the pioneers Zacharie Cloutier and Xainte Dupont
 • Jean Baptiste Trottier, son of Jules Trottier and Catherine Loiseau, emigrants originating from the vicinity of Igé (Orne, France), born in July 1646 when crossing the Atlantic from la Rochelle to Quebec on board the vessel 'Le Cardinal'. Madonna being one descendant of Jules Trottier and Catherine Loiseau, Camilla is Madonna's cousin!

The family tree of Camilla counts another Percheron branch via the great-great-grandmother of Marie Josèphe Guyon, Marie Boucher born in Mortagne-au-Perche in 1619, daughter of Boucher Gaspard and Nicole Lemaire born in Mortagne in 1599 and in Mamers (Sarthe) in 1595 respectively.

sources
 • Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Research Program in Historical Demography) PRDH - Université de Montréal
 • note of William Addams Reitwiesner