blood relationship

Sir Tom says the late Queen's clear "love of the land" - a blood relationship running all the way back to the 14th century King Robert the Bruce - and her evident pride in being "Queen of Scots as well as Queen of the UK", helped to sustain support for Elizabeth in her lifetime.

Then he went on to write, in part: “I will not stand against my brother on a humanitarian level. And I will work to keep our blood relationship away from politics. … I will never be okay with any insult against my brother, or any attack, be it verbal or physical, against him as long as I am there.”

Daenerys has other plans; with her dragons and blood relationship to the monarchy, she believes she’s the rightful queen.

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has already ruled that the law does not require a “blood relationship” between a child and his citizen parent, so long as both parents were married at birth.

A federal judge decided Thursday that a twin son of a binational gay couple, who was denied U.S. citizenship because he does not share a blood relationship with his American father, has been a U.S. citizen since birth.