David Dimbleby's current television series is questioning Britain's hereditary monarchy. So it's time for a thumping ad hominem argument and some fun with the Dimblebys and the hereditary principle.
Here's his father Richard Dimbleby in 1956. Because of his work as the BBC's war correspondent during World War II, including reports from newly liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he was Britain's most celebrated broadcaster and a significant public figure.
Here's Richard's son David Dimbleby making his first broadcast for the BBC at the age of 12.
And here's David's son Henry Dimbleby, at the age of 13, in one of the two BBC adaptions of Arthur Ransome books – Coot Club and The Bix Six – in which he played a leading role in 1984.
I was surprised to hear young Dimbleby on the radio yesterday saying that his father was only 52 when he died. One assumes that as such a (deservedly) revered figure in the BBC panoply he would have been much older than that - an old man, not middle aged.
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