Carrot and Nobby

So I’m rereading Feet of Clay and it occurred to me that as Carrot is the long lost descendant of the last King and Nobby is sort of the Earl of Ankh who was a relative of the last king of Ankh Morpork then Carrot and Nobby are distant cousins.

Yes, I know the whole thing about Nobby being an earl was part of a scheme to unseat the Patrician but then there’s the bit towards the end of the book where Nobby actually has more evidence that he really is the heir of the earl