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Beauty queen's royal connection after finding out she is related to Princess Diana
royal roots and is a distant relative of Princess Diana.Niamh Gwen, who already boasts the title of Miss Preston, didn’t believe her mum when she told her she had put their details into a genealogy website and found they were descendants of the great grandmother of the late Princess of Wales.The 24-year-old social media manager told the Liverpool ECHO: "My mum said 'no way we are descendants of royalty' and I was just like 'are you joking me, we are not royal'.”Niamh, who has set her sights on the national beauty pageant, didn’t expect to win when she entered the Miss Preston awards.She explained: “I just did it for confidence as I was becoming a teacher, because I had absolutely no confidence whatsoever.“I was the most socially awkward. I struggled with eye contact and panic attacks all the time.