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Esther Rantzen has always been intrigued by the story of a ‘black sheep’ in her otherwise middle-class and respectable family.
As she traced her family back she was stunned to learn that her wealthy stockbroker grandfather was born in an East End slum. Her subsequent investigations into the Rantzen family’s rapid social rise exposed a close family connection with one of the richest men of the 19th century.
Patsy’s late father was an East End villain. She investigates her father’s criminal past and unearths the extent of his crimes.
Boris Johnson is distantly related to the British Royal Family. He was born in New York to English parents and never knew of his royal connection.
Jerry’s parents dramatically escaped from Nazi Germany to London just three days before the outbreak of World War Two.