Politics

BRITAIN'S BROMANTIC TRAGEDY: DAVID CAMERON AND BORIS JOHNSON'S SHOWDOWN

...Both men grew up in wealthy families. By upper-class English standards, Johnson’s family is unconventional; his paternal grandfather was half-Turkish, and on his paternal grandmother’s side he is related to many of the royal families of Europe—and to Cameron. They are eighth cousins. Though he also has blue-blooded lineage, Cameron’s family is, for the most part, of unremarkable if generally privileged British stock.

Johnson’s childhood was somewhat chaotic. He was born in New York, and his bohemian parents, Stanley and Charlotte, were constantly moving—to Oxford, London, Brussels, Connecticut and Washington, D.C., studying and pursuing various careers. They appear to have been particularly keen that their four children learned to fend for themselves.