The old Botswana morality dictated that you had to provide for such people, no matter how distant the connection.
For these reasons, a distant connection to a family of the old nobility is often merely considered as a curiosity.
The youth's mother was so much incensed that she left all her own property to distant connections.
I think it will be best to claim you as a distant connection, perhaps the niece of a school friend.
A very distant connection, like most of the High Families scions.
If the two men are related, the common ancestor lived more than 400 years ago, a distant connection at best.
Invitations came to the chateau for the family to a wedding of a distant connection.
She was a distant connection of the duke's who had found herself impoverished in widowhood.
The librarian looked so apologetic that he was moved to add, "Of course, there may be some distant connection.
Like himself, the original Brutogas had been only a distant connection of an illustrious blood line.