Ancestry
Celia Imrie appeared on the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? in October 2012. In this programme she found that an ancestor on her mother's side was William, Lord Russell, a Whig parliamentarian who was executed for treason in 1683 after being found guilty of conspiring against King Charles II of England. Further back she is descended from Lady Frances Howard who was the central figure in a scandal during the reign of King James VI and I involving the "murder" of Sir Thomas Overbury.
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