Singer Chris de Burgh"s daughter Rosanna Davison made an amazing discovery about her grandma"s Cold War exploits on the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? Her grandparents had been involved in Cold War espionage. Her grandmother had worked for traitor Kim Philby. She also was in Malta training British spies to fight the communist regime in Albania, and attended polo and parties with Lord Mountbatten.
The revelations astonished the 26-year-old model who, in the making of Who Do You Think You Are? had visited her quiet grandmother Maeve - mother of singer Chris de Burgh - in her home at Wexford"s Bargy Castle to gently admonish her, "You never told me!"
"You never asked," Maeve had replied, to the bemusement of thousands of TV viewers.
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