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The most eccentric premiere: achievements, scandals and women Boris Johnson
His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. And he was the most unusual, extravagant and eccentric prime minister of the chopping, invariably adhering traditions of Great Britain. On July 7, 2022, Boris Johnson announced his resignation. He did this with obvious regret, saying that he was sadly leaving the "best work in the world."
There are already many expert judgments about how he was the head of the government, why he resigned, what mistakes he made and what he achieved and what he achieved. We will not join this choir, we are unlikely to be able to say something new about it. We better describe the story of his life - contradictory, ambiguous, but, as it seems to us, fascinating.
Blood questions
The genealogy of our hero to match him is as bright and unusual as he is. There are many blood in it, Boris himself (stress on the first syllable) somehow compared himself to a jar of honey, found on the shelf of a supermarket-a “product of many countries”. He considers himself half a Jew, half a Frenchman, half an Englishman, half an American, half a pterodactyl and half Turk, quotes him BBC.
Boris Johnson's interest in his roots and ancestors expressed, among other things, in the fact that he took part in the program “Who Do You Think You Are?”, Exploring the Genealogical Tree of the British. Thanks to this program, it turned out that the famous Basel mummy turned out to be great-great-great ... Boris Johnson’s grandmother in the seventh generation. But we will not look so far.
On the paternal line, Boris Johnson comes from the wealthy Turkish Akhmet Hamdi Kemal, who fell in love with the prisoner Circassian Hanif Fered, bought her out of slavery, taught him a letter and married her, and she gave birth to several children in gratitude. One of their sons, Ali Kemal - Boris Johnson's great -grandfather - entered the history of Turkey. The family condition allowed him to get a good education and travel a lot around the world. Kemal became a liberal journalist living in London, from where he passionately opposed the genocide of the Armenians and other national minorities of the Ottoman Empire. His first wife, a British named Winifred Brun Johnson, died from a postpartum fever in 1910. The child survived, he was called Osman - he will become Boris's grandfather.
In 1912, Ali Kemal returned to his homeland, in 1918 he served the post of Minister of the Interior with the last ruler of the Ottoman Empire. In this position, he led the creation of the bailiff service against the Armenians and the Greeks guilty of the genocide. In the same position, he managed to give an order to arrest the future first president of the Turkish Republic of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. After Ataturk arrived at power, Ali Kemal became an enemy of Turkish nationalists. In November 1922, he was abducted and lincinan with an angry crowd, and his son Osman fled to the UK, where he accepted the name of Wilfred Johnson.
Boris's father, Stanley Patrick Johnson, was born in 1940 in Britain, but his mother, Yvonn Eileen (Irene) Williams, was a Frenchwoman, daughter of Baroness Maria-Luiza de Pfeffel (this clan rises to the “lady from Basel”). By the way, Maria-Luiza was the grandson of the wife of the poet Fedor Tyutchev Ernestine Pfeffel and the Russian Grand Duchess Elena Elena Elena Pavlovna, the wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the younger brother of the Russian emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. In memory of his French roots, 81-year-old Stanley Johnson received this year. Having stated that he took advantage of the right given to him by the origin.
Stanley Johnson is known in the UK not only as the father of the Prime Minister, he is a popular writer, the author of several books on environmental problems and 9 novels, a former policy of the conservative party who, from 1979 to 1984, was a member of the European Parliament, a former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission.
Boris Johnson was born on June 19, 1964 in New York, where his father studied the economy at Columbia University, so Boris also has US citizenship in addition to British citizenship.
His mother, Charlotte Johnson Wal (nee Fosett), was a famous artist from the family of liberal intellectuals (from the age of 40 she suffered from Parkinson's disease and died in 2021 at the age of 79). Her genealogical tree is no less interesting than her first wife Stanley Johnson, with whom they divorced when Boris was 14 years old.
Boris Johnson's great -grandfather on the maternal line - Elias Avery Law was born in the Russian Empire in 1879 in the family of Lithuanian Jews. In 1889, his family moved to America and naturalized there. Elias became a successful paleographer, traveled around the world. His wife, Helen Tracy Low Porter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1876 in the family of a pharmacist and economy; Despite the modest origin, she became the famous translator, the most famous in that she translated into English almost all the works of Thomas Mann. Their daughter Francis Beatrice Law was born in Oxford, where Elias taught paleography at Oxford University.
In 1937, Francis married James Fosett, a successful lawyer, who from 1962 to 1984 worked in the European Commission on Human Rights and was dedicated for this in knights. Their daughter Charlotte was also born in Oxford, in 1942.
Parents of Boris Johnson Stanley and Charlotte got married in 1963, they named his first -born Alexander Boris, the second name, eventually becoming the first, he received in honor of the Russian emigrant, whom his parents met in Mexico. Soon after the birth of her son, the family returned to the UK so that Charlotte, by family tradition, was educated at the University of Oxford. Following the eldest son, the family of Rachel, the son of Leo and the youngest Joseph appeared in the family.
His universities
In childhood, Boris suffered from deafness (he underwent several operations to restore hearing). When he was 9 years old, in connection with his father’s work, the family moved to Brussels, where the boy quickly mastered French and generally studied “perfectly”.
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