Researchers have identified a mummified body found in a Basel churchyard as a wealthy 18th-century Swiss woman who is an ancestor of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. The body of an apparently wealthy woman was found decades ago during renovations on the Barfuesser Church in the Swiss city. Basel's Natural History Museum says its experts led an international team that identified her. Very excited to hear about my late great grand 'mummy' - a pioneer in sexual health care. Her daughter married Christian Hubert Baron Pfeffel von Kriegelstein, an ancestor of Britain's foreign minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

Source: CBC News January 25, 2018 15:19 UTC