A love for music appears to run in Taylor Swift’s family — the royal family that is.

The 34-year-old international pop star is related to King Louis XIV, the French monarch who built the Palace of Versailles, director of research at MyHeritage Roi Mandel told TODAY.com.

Swift is King Louis XIV’s eighth cousin 11 times removed, per Mandel.

Speaking to TODAY.com, Mandel calls the discovery “amazing.” Swift’s tie to royalty is “not rare,” he says, but his team was not expecting to see this kind of connection.”

It’s not rare because when you look Europe … we saw how all the houses of royals in Europe are connected to each other. They’re all cousins and they are the founding fathers, as they say. Their descendants eventually, many generations later, emigrated to the U.S.,” Mandel says.

King Louis XIV ruled from 1643 to 1715 — a total of 72 years, the longest of any European sovereign to this day. Queen Elizabeth II, for context, reigned for 70 years.

He had a public love for music and culture.

“The connection to Louis XIV is interesting because XIV is the king that built the magnificent Palace of Versailles, where all the parties were spectacular,” Mandel says. “He used to play a lot of music there. He used to play the guitar. He was passionate about cultural music.”

The genealogist explains that their team began by looking at the Swift family’s ties to Europe and discovered that the singer’s ancestors on her paternal line were among the first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts from England.