New season WDYTYA

pinkypinky

Started tonight with Josh Widdicome.

A good solid episode - 12 minutes in they'd skipped to 10 generations back. It continued from there.

Some serious gateway ancestry.

They did not confirm whether he was related to Ann Widdicome. I feel hard done by.

Hermy

I hope for his sake he isn't!

pinkypinky

Friend saying on Twitter that it's not actually family history when you get into these kind of famous nobles - just plain history!

Lime Tree Farm

Prior to the series returning, it said that he made surprising discovery. I joked that it was probably that he was related to Ann

Josh's Episode was much along the same lines as Matthew Pinsent's Catherine Howard

I recently watched a series on the Boleyns. At the end of the final episode it claimed that present Queen is a descendant of Mary Boleyn.

pinkypinky

And reminiscent of Danny Dyer's as well, though his was more entertaining. They should have done the homework and said Josh was 15th cousins x removed from both Danny and Matthew for the laugh.

Yes, I believe QEII is descended from Mary Boleyn on her mother's side.

But of course, a lot of people would have those ancestors. The proving it is the remarkable thing.

Jellybaby_1

Its a long time since I enjoyed an episode of WDYTYA as much as this. However, they just love to find Royal bloodlines and they stuck with that. There might have been some other interesting stories but not enough time to cover them and the royals. I don't think Josh Widdicome is related to Ann Widdicome though, it would have been included I'm sure. This one reminds me of the Boris Johnson one, though I'm not sure if it was WDYTYA, when they rolled out the final family tree they went all the way up to God! Hilarious and terrifying at the same time!

pinkypinky

They've rolled out that College of Arms scroll for a few people over the years. It took me a while before I realised it's the same one each time!

Someone was saying on Twitter that a Sabine Baring-Gould wrote Onward Christian Soldiers. She is surely related to Josh but they didn't mention it.

Lime Tree Farm

Only entertaining trees qualify.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/who-do-you-think-you-are-stars-rejected_uk_6040ead2c5b6d7794ae481ea

As my old primary school teacher used say, " God between us and small farmers"

Jellybaby_1

Christopher Eccleston was right when he said that generations of working class people were dismissed. Seems a terrible shame. Not everyone is thrilled to find royal blood, remember Danny Dyer was pretty shocked that he didn't come from medieval Arfur Dalys!!

Rmulvany

I enjoyed Judie Dench's episode. Especially how she uncovered so many links to Shakespeare.

I won't lie, I was jealous when she managed to get so far with her Irish (albeit landed gentry) line! What I wouldn't do to find one of those scrolls for anyone in my tree!

Jellybaby_1

Judi Dench's was fascinating. Great entertainment to see her so flabbergasted! Due to time constraints I suppose, they had to skip and lot of levels to get to the big story.