Yes, but he's a foreigner. Born in the USA and with Russian, Turkish and other blood, there's not much English in him other than the education.
Johnson's paternal great-grandfather was
Circassian-
Turkish journalist
Ali Kemal who was a
secular Muslim; his father's other ancestry includes English, German and French; one of his German ancestors was said to be the
illegitimate daughter of
Prince Paul of Württemberg and thus a descendant of
King George II of Great Britain. This would make him and
Elizabeth II 6th cousins twice removed. Through
Mary of Teck's connection to
Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg they have a closer genealogical link, as they are 5th cousins twice removed. Johnson's mother is the granddaughter of
Elias Avery Lowe, a
palaeographer, who was a
Russian Jewish immigrant to the US, and
Pennsylvania-born
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator of
Thomas Mann. In reference to his varied ancestry, Johnson has described himself as a "one-man melting pot" – with a combination of
Abrahamic religions great-grandparents. Johnson was given the middle name "
Boris" after a Russian émigré his parents had once met.
[10] An episode of
Who Do You Think You Are? explored the German origins of his middle name
Pfeffel. Through this family line, Boris Johnson is a descendant in the seventh generation of
Anna Catharina Bischoff, whose
mummified corpse was found in 1975 and identified in 2018.
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