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

[castiron]

Thanks! Yes, I was thinking a younger daughter would work. (I don't know if Harriet c. 1936 is from the Wimsey Papers or is a Paton Walsh invention, but a daughter that age wouldn't be too old to be Sherlock's mother, if c. 1975 for his birth is canon-consistent.)

[nineveh_uk]

Randomly Wimseying... the third Parker child is mentioned in a Sayers MS, sex not noted, so not totally a JPW invention. There's nothing in the Wimsey papers, but they are awful so I ignore them.

[castiron]

Thanks! I've got at least a little canon to run with, then.