Cripes! Golly! and so on.
Completely unrelated to any sort of family most of us are likely to come across, but an entertaining programme and certainly, as the football commentators would say, a game of two halves, but both halves seemed to underline to me how the genes flow through families. The politician and journalist gt-grandfather and gt-grandson on the one hand; the upper-class twittery on the other.
It was interesting throughout seeing the politician Boris suddenly catch and check the schoolboy Boris.
Fascinating that his gt grandfather is still persona non grata in Turkey and they had trouble finding any historian who would discuss him! Fascinating and quite sad too.
It seemed to me that Boris was clearly moved by the account of the execution of his gt grandfather. Boris was utterly speechless and there were no 'cripes' exclamations then, just, after a very long silence, a breathless "b*stards".
I'd have liked to have known a bit more about the de Pfeffels, though obviously Catharina's line was far more interesting and significant. And what a great shame the Wurttemberg silver collection so clearly prized by his grandmother got broken up and sold.
Nie to see them using microfilm for once rather than the prized original registers being produced ... and then the super twist that the microfilm had missed off the marginal note as to her real father. How much do we all suspect that might be the case for our people!
Never has the word fossicking been used so often on prime-time television!
I look forward to his apology to Wales for saying they're part of England!
