"My last relative was my great-uncle, who was married to Queen Victoria's youngest granddaughter, Marie-Louise," says Prince Eduard of Anhalt, descendant of an ancient Germanic line, who likes to regale listeners with tales of his close hereditary ties with the British royal family and especially King Charles III. But the link between his lineage -- from the ancient House of Ascania, which helped create Berlin -- and the British royal family is not exactly direct. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES