WDYTYA? - Frances de la Tour

Well! That's Series 12 done and dusted in style, with last night's episode starring British actress Frances de la Tour, who has suitably posh ancestors (have you ever noticed how many of our actors and actresses are descended from aristocrats?)

 

But there was the whiff of scandal throughout the lives of these aristocratic ladies - and Frances followed the path of affairs, drugs, and the stifling conditions of life as a high-class woman. It never ceases to surprise me just how naïve celebrities can sometimes be in Who Do You Think You Are? episodes. Maybe it's just the hardened genealogist in me that automatically jumps to affairs and opium - not that I was wrong!

So, with intriguing stories and access to surviving historical documents that most of us can only dream of, Frances de la Tour closed off the series with a compelling and interesting episode.