Janet and her sister, Liz, had their fantasies about a countess dispelled by the expert on the BBC show. 'Amazing' moment as half sister revealed on TV "My dad was a bit of a flirt anyway," Janet added. Her father used to talk about picking potatoes, she said. When the presenter asked how her father would have had the time to meet a lover, Janet said he was working on the land. She told Stacey Dooley although there were elements of her ideas that were fact, she made them fit her "fantasy". Janet admitted that because no one had been able to check her facts as a child, her imagination had "run wild" about who her half sister could be. So me as a little kid, I viewed this as a totally romantic liaison - and as a result there was a child that was born." And at some point the countess hid my father in a big laundry basket when the Nazis were coming to look for him. "Was on one of my dad's escape missions there was a countess in this castle out in Austria. "The story that stands out most," Janet said. In his stories of the war, her father would detail how he had escaped his prisoner of war camp "many times". Her dad had always been "quite open" about his wartime experiences - though he never mentioned a daughter in Austria, Janet explained on the programme. Bath MP says government seems 'not particularly interested or worried' over Jim Fitton caseĬould her sister be the daughter of a countess?.Bath locals blast change to speaking up at council meetings.And they delivered the answers she had long sought. That's why she turned to the DNA experts on Stacey Dooley's programme. So Janet remained in limbo about the possible existence of her half-sibling. This, she says, was enough confirmation that the childhood rumours had been true.īut although her mum did not deny the family gossip, she did not confirm it, either. Janet added her mum "went quite rigid" and "really didn't want to discuss it at all". I thought I better ask her before she died because my dad had died." I never mentioned it to either of my parents. Janet added: "I think I must have gone upstairs to tell my sister Elizabeth this story. READ NEXT - Bath grandma targeted by vandals who attacked her and 'urinated' on her belongings Then, from what I remember, these people were just almost ejected from the house." "Then one of the guests says to my dad 'what's this Danny, what's this that I hear that you've got a daughter in Austria?'. When I was about 9 or 10, my mum and dad had some friends round and they're just chatting. In a programme first broadcast on Wednesday (May 11), Janet said on a Bath meeting with Stacey Dooley: "My dad was a soldier in World War Two and he was a prisoner of war in Austria. But she cried when her existence was finally revealed for certain. Janet Dabbs, 62, told the BBC's DNA Family Secrets her father may have had another child during his time in Europe during the Second World War. A Bath woman said she was "speechless" in an emotional TV moment, as presenter Stacey Dooley introduced her to a lost half sibling she only knew of as a rumour throughout her life.
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