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new moves dimitri skillfully this is one of the world's top three runner. we start off with the royal wedding it's a little over a week until the big day when prince harry and meghan markle will tie the knot winds up the actress has been living in the limelight for quite some time and that won't change once she becomes part of the royal family much is known about that ancestry of course but what about her like many americans our forefathers hail from europe varian your remarks reporter hendrick belling took a closer look at her family tree. prince harry and meghan markle my new fairy tale royal couple. purple tanel ancestors probably came from this village. population seven hundred nine an alsatian france just a few kilometers from the german border.

this is where my research has brought me. and i'm standing here in the middle of. this could be where meghan marcos ancestors once lived a piece of information which took a lot of work to uncover. the search began several months ago and often back at the edge of the black forest the town was all aflutter since a popular magazine reported meghan markle has ancestors from the area i was excited to and asked the mayor and the town archivist about it. keeps all the town's church records he's rather skeptical about the often heard connection. to see if you look there were lots of men and women who had similar names on top and there's a very real possibility that her name was transcribed incorrectly. many names

were written in dialling and. we couldn't find an entry for the markle family anywhere here. in the lead to often but i came up empty. it was back to the drawing board for me. in berlin my search brings up geologists in the united states the new england historic geneological already traced some of. that point. it's a matter of finding the right sources. i start with meghan marcos grandfather. this marriage certificate from one thousand nine hundred one reveals the name of his father. according to the one nine hundred. eighteen year old isaac was living with his father george in pennsylvania. george's

father was interned named. as shown by a marriage certificate from one thousand nine hundred. deaths or to forget issued for. named his father as frederick and a census from eight hundred fifty confirmed it. graves can be found in the snyder town cemetery in center county. and the grave of his father. but the certificate of baptism in seven hundred seventy two gives his name is henry son of henry. is the emigrant from europe was looking. for his father in america in seven hundred fifty four. on the ship. he was listed as the passenger. my next stop is the regional archive and. i'm looking for proof that america

originated in this area. what i found so far. first you have to have confidence in your sources and second those sources have to produce the documents you need only when you've got the documents together can you assume that the trail leads to. this archive preserves the church records from the region we searched through the baptismal records from the years in question. it turns out that the greatest challenge is decipher the old fashioned handwriting we go through one year after another and hit the jackpot in seven hundred thirty to. register his son's baptism. this is the very same. junior this is the original now we can be sure it's not

a false leads. us. we've found a possible line of descent from. to meghan markle but it would take years of research to nail down finity of proof. some are very precise but with others you know we're know for sure because on the document we just saw for instance there was listed. that there could have been many people with the name frederick marx and several could read either name. that's ninety thousand naaman have been. given with all the evidence that points. we still can't be truly certain still deputy mayor donnie is excited about the possibility of a connection to a future royal he shows me some of his typical have to invert houses. just in time to see to kalugin more a bit off the beaten track surrounded by forests fields and orchards there's

a lot of nature and that's nice it makes for the charm of iran but still untrue dust. from them. and what do the villagers say about this tidbit. their lineage definitely comes from merrill yes sir. in the eighteenth century most people here were farmers the area was traded back and forth between french and german principalities to this day some people here speak german others french some are catholic and others protestant one of the villages oldest structures is the fourteenth century church steeple it's possible the baptism of hind. took place here in the old part of the church in seventeen thirty two. most of the homes date back to the nineteenth century but some of the even older buildings can often yield clues to their original residence .

visa so here's the date the house was built and seventeen twenty one with the initial am but that's just in it's the surname. we can say it might have been maunder or marco that the two of the families who lived in this village at the time. in dull fluent. but today nobody by. a name of miracle lives around here. so it was interesting to spend a day here where meghan michaels ancestors might have lived it especially after looking into the genealogy and such depth and give the town a whole new meaning when the guns on little bit. famous tranquillity may just get interrupted in the near future especially if meghan markle and prince harry drop by to see where her european ancestors may have come from. now let's get caught

up with what's happening around europe and today's express were making stops in lisbon and can but first we look at the upcoming role wedding from a different perspective. lego land in the british town of windsor is celebrating the upcoming wedding of prince harry and meghan markle with a specially built replica of windsor castle. it's located just five kilometers from the original console where the royal couple will tie the knot on may nineteenth alongside lego figures of the bride and groom the scene includes miniature versions of the royal family as well as invited guests and on look his eleven model makers who some sixty thousand bricks to build the replica. let they are oh this is so wrong god does strike you. the first of two semifinals for this year's euro vision song contest took place in lisbon on tuesday evening ten of the

nineteen participants qualifying for the grand for not being included big favorite . representing israel with their song toy. and any foreigner singing for a goal for cyprus the total of twenty six candidates will compete in saturday's final. the seventy first cannes film festival kicked up on tuesday with a star studded red carpet featuring the likes of martin scorsese and kristen stewart but the spotlight was focused on five years back then and penelope cruz the oscar winning actor has played the lead in the festival's opening film everybody knows from iranian director as. it's one of twenty one films competing for the palme d'or the festival runs until may nineteenth. have you have of course a movie as a film festival and this week's audience survey we want to know how you most like

to enjoy films so add to our website dot com slash lifestyle and join in by taking part you'll be entered in our prize draw and in with a chance of winning a euro max wristwatch. now let's turn to the subject of art bruce nauman is one of the world's most renowned and respected contemporary artists now a swiss museum has dedicated an entire exhibition to his fifty year career at the shower in basel disappearing acts showcases his key works of art as well as revealing previously unseen installations. the astounding art of bruce now it's been fifty years since now among first began exploring the highs and lows of the human condition. his pieces investigate what it means to be trapped within convention's by rigid mindsets are inside established

social order. and once in a while the artist appears in his own installation. this is bruce on this horse. the artist brought his cowboy hat to. although he'd rather be wearing it on his ranch in new mexico he doesn't much like having to be at the museum now money shy and avoids t.v. interviews so his long time friend in the exhibitions carried her explains is over for him. i guess it's always about who are with me you know how to have them i grounded in this earth. sometimes i feel less grounded sometimes i feel like i'm floating and i don't know my direction. all these things i think are possible if you bring your own experience the retrospective and the

solid organs vast rooms unfolds like a chronological obstacle course over one hundred seventy dealing visually and physically exhausted that's part of the concept. for a curator it's like oh my god you know to have to leave that out it's demanding color. is what makes us a lot of. really exist in college and bruce makes us very aware of khalid koser material. time and space are central themes in no man's work he pioneered performance and video art. the pace to studio in a never ending loop and brittle through one of his early corridor installations. so if we can hold ambiguity close to us not be afraid of it understand actually

that it's offering us more than one opportunity more than one truth then i think we begin to actually open or horizon. the piece is supposed to also open the viewer's physical horizons anyone who's creases through the small corridor is performing just as no man did as a young man then there is his famous cage installation which brings associations with factory farming as well as society's constraints. grossest challenging us i believe as citizens. to pay attention to rear vigilant. and to be resistant. so what are we supposed to see in bruce now men's latest large scale video work is the artist in solving an

intangible self-portrait either way his presence can be felt in the impressive exhibition. now you like to make it into something but. now we go from a basel arts gallery to a garridge and belong your italy. although it doesn't really look like a garridge since architects francesco check out early transformed it into a spacious modern home he specializes in popping up old buildings we took a closer look at the renovation as part of our regular series your max the locks. from the outside this building doesn't look particularly special. so welcome to my house come follow me. francesco check out that he lives at the back where you'd

usually expect to find the garage. here's my house. francesco shares this completely open plan apartment with his wife. the architect and his team came across the apartment in twenty twelve when it looked very different. it was a dilapidated garage used as a storage space. the space was a garage so was very sustainable economic terms and that we immediately see to put a shine he said this that's part. impressive part and then we start to melding mixing it together in order to find their right solution in functional terms for this house. the first challenge was to open it up to daylight. the doors were replaced with french windows that open onto wood terrace. plants and greenery to

blur the boundary between inside into. your view on to a park and to the sense of spaciousness there was no need to install a heating system the pipes in the ceiling provide warmth from the apartment block we try to maintain it's in the middle and there is a black box. inside the black box is the bathroom and. it's a feature that gives the room structure while replacing. so everything in here as speaks about geometry about her face as volumes. black lines what's her face is black boxes all white boxes so we choose to put these big black box inside these hours in order to module eight there's hope and space

modulator the flowing space from kitchens are leaving room to badger makes us run. up some stamps on top of the box. overlooks the kitchen. is just around trees on the floor which is fun and francesca. why you have to sleep in a simple room. meter and seventy high. clearly asleep here like i am in a tent. in a camping something like that. sleeping sleeping and then they make everything else . just go holds meetings there is plenty of. room is customary. those are the kitchen fittings.

of concrete slabs origami like these that are used pared down understated. they do to hide all the cows that house make living life in order to have empty spaces spaces freely to flow through for other functions so . every older stocking is over there the plexiglas and gold pieces sort of aesthetic atmosphere of course bought on the back side there are there is the entropy of the house ok. francesco's garage house is a work in progress he's planning a second black box to allow for extensions. the apartment comprises just ninety square meters but that's more than enough for him and his wife. in italian i leave.

speaks abi talk and i'll be talking to him means also dress so they will leave like a dress so and now is that it really fits you like a perfect tailor made dress for us is the main goal. francesco check out early has created a home in that snug and stylish practical grant affordable. living in a garage sounds like you would be scruffy but not in this one here in brooklyn you know. looks rather cozy next report features a man who lives life outside the comfort zone free run a demetrius kissimmee this is used to adrenaline coursing through his veins his polish off a park or means that what ever obstacle is in his way he'll find

a way over it and is even able to make a living out of his hobby a sport which he considers a way of life although it's definitely not for the faint hearted. dimitris kisan he does dk for short loves obstacles dk is greece's best known free running. for eleven years now he's been jumping and rolling over what ever comes his way he combines elements from break dance martial arts and acrobatics. to do tricks and his friends free running isn't just a sport it's a way of life. everything but another part of our brain running teaches us to overcome obstacles whether they're in cities or in nature. it also teaches us how to overcome challenges in our lives.

you can teach you a lot. but i would if i had to really benefit from it but i've only. every day dimitri spend six hours practicing new moves he enjoys doing this with his free run of friends in his hometown of testimony that we ran a scene is very supportive. one thing i've learned from free running is this you're always better than you were the day before but you never stop improving your skills you constantly develop your abilities you know. twenty three year old demetrius is able to make a living from free running and he's constantly participating in competitions like the twenty seventeen las vegas jump off championships which was staged by the world free running and federation. was in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen dimitris won the free running competition on greece's center really island that

catapulted him to play since then red bull has become his sponsor dimitris instagram account has one hundred forty five thousand followers and his facebook page has over sixty five thousand fans. but it. just that you've got to have a unique skills that will draw people's attention if you want to promote a product but that you've got to spend hours in front of a mirror honing your presentational skills and practicing outdoors so you acquire many different abilities. dk actively promotes free running in greece together with mayor he managed to have the city's first ever popular and free running park built in twenty twelve this is where dimitris honed his latest move the ball trick which involves multiple spins it was part of my friends are an important part of what i do. with album i

couldn't make the videos i do. i wouldn't enjoy practicing without them. they make it so much more fun. when demetrius shows up his spectacular tricks near tourist attractions like to salonica byzantine city will audiences are guaranteed. but he's well aware that he can practice his sports for ever. just leave me out there was that i've got some ideas what i can do if i can continue this sport at some point. but i'll either become a free running coach. or i'll open a gym in my home city of tears a lot of it is i don't need to get him out of that other guy on after you've been employed by the other side to be anything. but demetrius wants to perfect his

skills to become one of the world's top free run is. that's all we have time for today but we'll be back tomorrow of course with another healthy dose of european lifestyle and culture then follow us on our facebook and instagram pages at v.w. euro max a lot from our. dream team to be cruising commandeered by the center of attention when their film opened this year's festival they play the leads in the psycho thriller everybody you know they've already made many films together your own max interviewed the pair of oscar winning actors on the french riviera glitz glamour and great cinema next time on your own backs.

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