The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.

[57 Chevy]

M11rph said:

I'm related to the late Alexandra Bastedo ...

Recently watched The Champions, great show

[RustyMX5]

Abbott said:

RustyMX5 said:

psi310398 said:

RustyMX5 said:

Here's a tenuous link. I'm related to a knight who fought in the Crusades.

No desire at all to pee on your chips, but aren’t most of us? I seem to recall that some 98% of the Western European population (at least the white population) can trace back to Charlemagne himself.

I would cast a little doubt on 98% but it wouldn't surprise me if most of us have ancestors who fought in the crusades. I can only lay claim to 'knight'.

psi310398 said:

But I guess a direct, ie unbroken, male descent could be trickier to establish and statistically at lot more interesting.

Yes, there was a clear male line up to my great grandfather.

Doofus said:

Is he famous though?

Famous? Probably not in modern terms although the records that were found would suggest he was a noble. Not an A-List royal but probably a C-List Country Squire.

All you need to do is find a link to some landed gentry. The family trees going up from there are usually very well documented

Apologies I missed this. My problem is that the records are Belgian / Luxembugger / French / Swiss so it's a bit of a tangled web to sort out.

[judas]

Friend of mine is close friends with Jools Holland and a bunch of other music celebs. Got us tickets and a backstage pass to one of the gigs where we got to hang out with Jools and the band and drink their rider. 'Twas a good night!

[boyse7en]

My mum's cousin's daughter's partner/boyfriend is the son of a fairly well known actress from the 1970s, his step father has been in several Marvel films, and he is a theatrical agent for, among others, Jack Whitehall. When they visited for my mum's 90th birthday he brought a magnum of champagne that Jack had given him.

[some bloke]

My sister's friend's mum was the daughter of a high ranking SS officer. She ate strawberries with a certain A. Hitler on her 6th birthday.

[OldSkoolRS]

judas said:

Friend of mine is close friends with Jools Holland and a bunch of other music celebs. Got us tickets and a backstage pass to one of the gigs where we got to hang out with Jools and the band and drink their rider. 'Twas a good night!

I read that as 'and drank their cider' but I may have been right I suppose. Sounds a good night and someone I'd choose for the imaginary 'what guests would you invite to dinner?' as I'm sure he'd have plenty of stories to tell.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

some bloke said:

My sister's friend's mum was the daughter of a high ranking SS officer. She ate strawberries with a certain A. Hitler on her 6th birthday.

That offends me. My grandfather died in the war.

He fell out of the watchtower.

[Trevatanus]

Rusty Old-Banger said:

some bloke said:

My sister's friend's mum was the daughter of a high ranking SS officer. She ate strawberries with a certain A. Hitler on her 6th birthday.

That offends me. My grandfather died in the war.

He fell out of the watchtower.

Reminds me of a neighbour I used to have. She told me that her father was a bomber pilot in the war, I asked her if she knew what he flew, she said she thought that it was Heinkel's

[Stedman]

some bloke said:

My sister's friend's mum was the daughter of a high ranking SS officer. She ate strawberries with a certain A. Hitler on her 6th birthday.

Crikey, some bloke.

[Andy_290]

Ricky Hatton and I were both born in Stepping Hill hospital, our parents were in at the same time and are facebook friends

[some bloke]

Stedman said:

some bloke said:

My sister's friend's mum was the daughter of a high ranking SS officer. She ate strawberries with a certain A. Hitler on her 6th birthday.

Crikey, some bloke.

Here's the book she wrote about it:
https://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/Library/28B15F...

[eldar]

That most famous of the 1970s music groups, Lieutenant Pigeon, were supplied with their pigeon by a close family friend. It was unnamed, and had a moderate infestation of lice or similar.

Coventry hasn't changed much.

[RammyMP]

We were having a conversation at work about who’s met famous people, there were a couple of good ones mainly around ex footballers and one of the women in the office used to sell Betty off Coronation Street nail varnish every Saturday in a shop in Altrincham.

My having a piss next to Bryan Robson was trumped by a colleague who unblocked Shaun Ryder’s drains once when they were blocked.

[OldSkoolRS]

My friend is working at Glastonbury and he saw Paul Heaton last night while (my friend) was emptying the bins.

I hope that's tenuous enough.