Keira Knightley is moved to tears as she hears the WWII love story of her sonar operator grandfather and volunteer grandmother whereas filming Channel 4’s My Grandparents’ Battle
- Keira Knightley was moved to tears as she heard the wartime love story of her sonar operator grandfather and volunteer grandmother
- The star realized that her grandfather crawled flat on his abdomen throughout a Blitz air raid to get to her grandmother whereas they had been courting in Glasgow, Scotland
- The actress, 37, was saddened when she heard her nice uncle Andrew, an RAF bombardier, was shot down whereas flying over Germany and was held as a prisoner of conflict for 18 months throughout World Battle II in 1943
- Keira realized of her household historical past in Channel 4’s My Grandparents’ Battle
Keira Knightley was moved to tears as she heard the wartime love story of her sonar operator grandfather and volunteer grandmother whereas filming Channel 4’s My Grandparents’ Battle.
The actress, 37, was additionally saddened when she heard her nice uncle Andrew, an RAF bombardier, was shot down whereas flying over Germany and was held as a prisoner of conflict for 18 months throughout World Battle II.
Display star Keira revealed within the documentary that her grandmother Jan by no means spoke of her tough wartime experiences, together with the time in 1943 when Jan and the remainder of her household believed Jan’s youthful brother Andrew Williams was useless after he was reported lacking in motion.
Touching: Keira Knightley, 37, was moved to tears as she heard the wartime love story of her sonar operator grandfather and volunteer grandmother in My Grandparents’ Battle
They feared he’d been shot down over town of Essen in western Germany throughout a bombing raid.
Whereas the pilot had in reality perished, the remainder of the crew ejected however had been held in a jail camp for 18 months.
Documenting the realisation he had survived, Andrew wrote: ‘I bear in mind staggering to a wall, sliding all the way down to the bottom and crying.’
Historical past: The actress was additionally saddened when she heard her nice uncle Andrew was shot down over Germany and was held as a prisoner of conflict for 18 months throughout World Battle II
Studying out his be aware, Keira continued: ‘We’d lastly been launched.
‘I used to be solely about seven stone by this time and I’d thought we had been all going to die.’
Studying her grandmother ran excitedly ran in the direction of the taxi to greet him when he lastly made it residence, Keira added: ‘I guess she did. Oh God, it will get you, doesn’t it?’
Keira’s grandfather Joseph ‘Mac’ MacDonald served within the Royal Navy for 12 years from 1934.
In love: The star realized that her grandfather crawled flat on his abdomen throughout a Blitz air raid to get to her grandmother whereas they had been courting in Glasgow, Scotland
He listened for U-boats as a sonar operator and helped rescue 700 Irish Guards from the MS Chrobry inside 20 minutes whereas the vessel was underneath assault.
Her grandmother volunteered as clerk, working at a army hospital within the western Highlands, earlier than organising troop actions ‘of a secret nature’, with Keira saying she was a part of an ‘unseen’ workforce.
The star realized that her grandfather crawled flat on his abdomen throughout a Blitz air raid to get to her grandmother whereas they had been courting in Glasgow, Scotland.
My Grandparents’ Battle started on Thursday 17 September on Channel 4, with episodes from the four-part collection airing every Thursday.
On display: My Grandparents’ Battle started on Thursday 17 September on Channel 4, with episodes from the four-part collection airing every Thursday (Keira pictured in 2019)