Who Do You Think You are Alex Kingston September 2012

I also enjoyed last nights Who you think you are with Alex Kingston. Just about to celebrate her 50^th birthday she remains a sexually attractive woman who divided herself as going through a period of instability in her life diving time between the UK and the USA. She is separated from her second husband with whom they have a daughter who lives in the US and she was previously married to Ralph Fiennes the classical actor with whom they lives for ten years since student fays before marriage. He left her for the Francesca Annis another heavenly creature who I would say is similar to Kingston in terms of her physical appearance and performance persona. She is reported to have taken the break up of their marriage badly.

She has never made the top as a film actress and is mostly known for TV roles with ER in the States and twelve Dr Who appearances and counting here with a long range of other TV series including the remake of Upstairs and Downstairs this years Marchlands 2011, Law and Order and Hope Springs 2009, The Knock in 1996 and 4 episodes of the Bill in 1988. We were back to World War and Passechendaele for the first investigation for a great grandfather a photographer who started as a magic lantern slide maker, She did not know what a magic lantern was which I found extraordinary given her age. There was a moving moment when she was able first read a brief account of the death of the relative in a book about the role of Engineers in relation to detecting the location of enemy guns by recording the sound waves on film and later identifying the death in the official record of the engagement although his individual military papers is one of the hundreds of thousands lost through World War II bombing

However it was the second investigation which as she admitted established both the Jewishness of part of her background and also the whore. Her words I emphasise. An early relative was widowed young in the early 1900 around 1824 with four children under 10 years and was found in a census running a lodging house in a row of lodging houses all run by single woman as owner occupiers in an era where all the property of a married woman belonged to her husband. The suggestions was therefore these lodging houses were of ill repute. There were two newsprint items which indicated this was so when early on she was brought to magistrates and found guilty for keep a lewd house and then there was suicide by poisoning which referred to a property owned by her but where she was not mentioned.

Her Will revealed that she owned a large number of properties which she left in trust to her grand daughter thus preventing them going to her son who sounds a wastrel or to any future husband of the daughter. That she grown from being a widow without pension to owning the property suggests the success of her occupation and that by also moving up in terms of location she may have achieved protect via her clients and which accounted that she was not referred to in the later incident. This tickled Kingston pink rather than the red of her golden red curls