You can see Boris Johnson discovering his family history (or at least the interesting part of it) here. Last night's episode of "Who do think you are" on BBC1 was very entertaining. Yes, Boris is a caricature of himself in real life - it has been confirmed.
As usual the BBC were very choosy in the lines of Boris' family which were followed up.
Apparently Boris had a mother. You wouldn't have guessed it from the programme, which entirely focussed on the ancestry of his paternal grandparents.
Boris' great-grandfather was lynched. And his grandmother was descended from George II (along with several thousand other people) via a German King with a very swanky palace.
Boris was interested in discovering the history of the de Pfeffel silver. Just say "Piffle silver" - it's much easier. (He is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, after all) It turned out that the silver was given to a great-grandmother, who was the illegitimate daughter of a German prince via an actress, by a German King. It was then passed down the family until Boris' grandparents sold it to pay for the holiday of a lifetime in Australia. Mind you, they had spent their lives farming amongst the lichen on Exmoor, so I think they deserved it.
So Boris, who should have inherited the silver by virtue of his "De Pfeffel/Piffle" surname, is silverless. Poor thing.
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