a Sherlock question

[castiron]

Question to British Sherlock fans: Assuming the characters aren't fiction in the Sherlockverse, is it plausible that Sherlock and Mycroft could be grandsons of Charles and Lady Mary (née Wimsey) Parker? Or are the class markers all wrong for grandnephews of a Duke?

(Given that I've read speculation on original canon's Holmes being related to Peter Wimsey, I can't resist speculating on the same for the new version.)

Comments

[legionseagle]

Incidentally, in Murder Must Advertise, first published in 1933, "small Peter" (the elder of the two children) gives Peter a crucial clue. He's producing complete sentences, has an interest in aeroplanes and speed-boats and at a guess is aged about three or four. Inferentially, therefore, the marriage must have taken place some five years previously, and we know it didn't take place before Harriet's trial in Strong Poison because the announcement of the Lady Mary/Parker engagement is the shock revelation at the end of that book. From the dates given at Harriet's trial, therefore, this can't be earlier than 1933 or 1934 - ie contemporary or slightly ahead of the publication date. You've still got a slight problem if the Holmes' boys mother is Mary Lucasta (born say 1931) because you've got to hypothesis her giving birth to Sherlock when aged about 45, but it's not outside the realms of possibility and might, in fact, account for the marked differences of character and temperament between the two siblings. If you wanted to make life simpler for yourself you could also hypothesise a later-born Parker daughter - I don't know if the Wimsey Papers give any guidance on this.