Carol Klein’s father was ‘distressed’ she was a girl ‘I was called Bill for a year!’

express.co.uk:

Carol Klein, the nation's TV gardening favourite, has confessed that her army recruit father had found it tough when he discovered his first child would not be a boy.

While everyone else was celebrating the end of the Second World War a month earlier, Carol's father was mourning the loss of the son he'd never had.Joking about her conception, Carol explained: "Dad was in the Army so must have had leave nine months earlier.“He was always distressed that I was a girl and I was actually called Bill for the first year and a half of my life by him and my grandad."Thankfully for her, her mother then gave birth to a little brother for her who could take on the name Bill instead."He’s the brother I lost....