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6. Meanwhile, Miranda Hart is so posh that the ‘early life’ section of her Wikipedia is actually just a 400-word synopsis of her family tree
Don’t you just hate when you’re descended from barons, marquesses, earls and dukes, and have to spend the rest of your life resenting coming from an aristocratic background?
Some choice quotes from Hart’s Wikipedia that put into perspective just how posh she is.
Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5th Baronet. It’s no “Paddy McCarthy,” is it?
Hart’s patrilineal great-great-great-great-grandfather was Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5th Baronet (1767–1846).
“Both the Culme-Seymours were implicated in the Mylius affair.” Two people with double-barrelled names being caught up in a highfalutin society scandal. Friends, it doesn’t get any more upper class.
His wife, Miranda’s great-grandmother, was Mary Elizabeth Culme-Seymour, daughter of Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet, Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom (1901–20). Both the Culme-Seymours were implicated in the Mylius affair.
But of course.
Hart is a fourth cousin, twice removed, of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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7. Brooke Shields’ ancestors all sound like characters from The Princess Diaries
Monday 23 December, 2024
Monday 23 December, 2024
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10 celebrity Wikipedias that will make you feel like a total peasant
1. Damian Lewis’ ancestors include a former Lord Mayor of London, a Lord and a ‘philantrophist’ (code for rich person)
Very relatable.
2. Not only is Rooney Mara an Academy Award-nominated actress, but she’s also NFL royalty
How many sports teams do your Mam and Dad own?
3. Eddie Redmayne went to school with Prince William and his great-grandfather was a Sir
Well, lah-di-dah.
4. Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ great-great-grandfather founded a ludicrously successful commodities and shipping conglomerate back in the nineteenth century
During the six-month period ending June 30th, 2016, the Louis Dreyfus Group had net sales of $23.5 billion.
What did your great-great-grandfather do, eh?
5. How you know Benedict Cumberbatch is posh:
6. Meanwhile, Miranda Hart is so posh that the ‘early life’ section of her Wikipedia is actually just a 400-word synopsis of her family tree
Don’t you just hate when you’re descended from barons, marquesses, earls and dukes, and have to spend the rest of your life resenting coming from an aristocratic background?
Some choice quotes from Hart’s Wikipedia that put into perspective just how posh she is.
Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5th Baronet. It’s no “Paddy McCarthy,” is it?
“Both the Culme-Seymours were implicated in the Mylius affair.” Two people with double-barrelled names being caught up in a highfalutin society scandal. Friends, it doesn’t get any more upper class.
But of course.
7. Brooke Shields’ ancestors all sound like characters from The Princess Diaries
Ah yes, the Grimaldis.
8. Imagine Ralph Fiennes’ family reunions :O
Lots of continental kisses and jumpers wrapped around shoulders, we imagine.
9. Helena Bonham Carter: so posh that her family tree has its very own Wikipedia
Helena doesn’t even need to go on Who Do You Think You Are? She knows exactly who she is. It’s all on Wikipedia.
10. Landowners, botanists, major generals, Normans – Tilda Swinton is like something from Game of Thrones
Us mere mortals can’t compete.
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Craic out of my way peasant