Breaking Bad star discovers he’s related to King Charles but insists he ‘doesn’t believe in monarchs and leaders’

Breaking Bad star Bob Odenkirk has revealed his shock after discovering he is related to King Charles.

The actor, 61, is the star of the latest episode of US genealogical series Finding Your Roots, in which he was told of a surprising royal connection.

In the show, host Henry follows Louis Gates Jr. the family trees of celebrities, and he manages to look back at five generations of Bob’s roots.

Bob’s fifth great-grandfather was Friedrich Carl Steinholz, born in Plön, Germany in 1755. Steinholz’s mother fathered him out of wedlock with the Duke of Plön, who was related to the royal families of Europe due to intermarriage.

The actor, 61, is the star of the latest episode of US genealogy series Finding Your Roots, in which he was told of a surprising royal connection

After discovering the royal link, Bob quickly told host Henry that “I’m American. I’m not a monarchist.’

‘I don’t believe in that. You know, I feel like it’s a little bit twisted. I understand why society has built itself around monarchs and leaders, passing them on from generation to generation.”

“I understand that this goes through every society, every civilization. But I think we’ve gotten to a better place with democracy and we should continue on that path.”

Host Harry then informed the actor that he is an eleventh cousin of the current King of the United Kingdom, Charles III.

Laughing, a shocked Bob says, “I might change my mind about that.”

“Now you’re destroying your family,” Henry joked. ‘How they earn a living. You should be ashamed of yourself. You haven’t been royal for five minutes!’

The actor has been married to his wife Naomi for 26 years and the couple have two children, Erin, 22, and son Nate, 24.

Last year, Bob revealed that his daughter helped him recover from his 2021 heart attack.

After discovering the royal link, Bob told host Henry Louis Gates Jr. quickly that ‘I’m an American. I am not a monarchist

“Now you’re destroying your family,” Henry joked. ‘How they earn a living. You should be ashamed of yourself. You haven’t been royal for five minutes!’

The Better Call Saul star suffered a heart attack in 2021 while filming the sixth season of the hit spin-off series.

During a joint interview with Entertainment Tonight, the Emmy-nominated actor told his 22-year-old daughter, “You’ve given me a rundown of what happened this past week.”

“Every day I woke up and I didn’t know what happened to me, or almost didn’t know what happened, and Erin made a nice graph: it was her version of the movie Momento….”

He added, “where I could look up and see, ‘you had a heart attack, these people came to visit, then you came to, you had surgery.’ ”

Erin also took extra care of her father after he came home from the hospital, making sure he took his recovery seriously.

“Almost every morning you would wake up and try to get out of bed to go for a walk to finish shooting your scenes,” she recalls.

“That was a big part of the recovery, trying to get you to stay in the room and sleep and not go to work.”

Bob admitted that his heart attack is “something I think about every day.”

The actor has been married to his wife Naomi for 26 years and the couple have two children, Erin, 22, and son Nate, 24 (pictured in 2023)

Last year, Bob revealed that his daughter helped him recover from his 2021 heart attack

‘Strangely enough, it didn’t affect me that much for a long time. I literally had this strange kind of happy energy the next day, and every day. It was because I had to wipe my mind every night,” he explained to the outlet.

“And so my ability to even think about what had happened to me was affected. I needed to hear about it from people who had been there, and I needed my brain to get back to normal.”

‘Now that I’ve been able to make some space in my life – partly because of the and the – I’ve had time to think about what happened and, and it makes me think, ‘How can I enjoy the days that I have ?’