'It was a total bombshell. I just went numb. I thought: Crikey!' The Deputy Prime Minister's biographer, Colin Brown, was one of the few people to have been entrusted with the knowledge that Pauline Prescott had a secret son. Lt Col Paul Watton tells him of his shock and joy on discovering the identity of his real mother

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 3, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

A FOXHUNTING, Conservative-voting Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Military Police spoke yesterday for the first time about how it felt to discover that his stepfather is John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister and champion of Labour's Left wing.

Timothy Paul Watton, 47, was coming to terms with the fact that after nearly half a century of living with his adoptive parents in Staffordshire, and rising through the ranks of the "Red Caps", he has a new family, with two grown-up half-brothers, Johnathan, 40, and David, 33.

But his most astonishing discovery of all is that his natural mother is ...

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