All the Young broods

SURELY one day, Will Young's descendants will boast that they are related to the first ever winner of Pop Idol.

- BY EMMA BULLIMORE

But Will has no idea what he’s going to find on his own journey into his family’s past, apart from his fanciful hope that he is secretly a Viking! He starts by researching his paternal granddad, Digby, who he never had the chance to meet.

He discovers a young man who studied medicine at Oxford, but who also spent most of his time competing in swimming races at the pool.