Yeah, and I say bullshit because it's not like you'd prove any of this.
I could claim a lot of things about my great grandfather, or even before him... and you'd never believe me, so...
Like many Brits I have parents and grandparents who were involved with the British Empire.
The British Empire only ended in 1997 when we gave Hong Kong to China.
My two grandfathers were officers in the British Army and you didn't fuck with them. They would give their life for me and the rest of the family but other than that they weren't the sort of fellas you'd anger. They both helped in the administration of the Empire as young men. In fact, my paternal grandfather had five brothers and one sister and he and his brothers were feared and renowned in 1950s Manchester for being small-time gangsters. And then he joined the army and helped run the Empire. In fact even when he was 70 and I was 23 if you came up to me or another family member and hit me he likely would have killed you.
My mother's father was a tough Scotsman and a British Army officer. My mother and her older and younger brother - my Uncle Alan and Uncle Stephen - and their father and mother lived in various places throughout our vast empire. My army officer grandfather was the British "bigwig" in those areas. They lived in Yemen - which is now two countries - and Malaysia. They lived in Singapore in a house on stilts so that it didn't flood during the rainy season. My mother and her brothers and parents loved in Kenya in the early Sixties when it was part of the British Empire. They lived in a mansion in the country with glorious views. They had Kenyan servants. My mother and her brothers even went out on fun adventures with the local Masai Mara.
So if you think I'm bullshitting about my family's role in the British Empire then think again.
After the Empire came to no longer be my maternal grandfather became an alcoholic in Paisley just outside Glasgow and just drank Scotch whisky with Irn Bru. He died in 2007. My paternal grandfather died in 2012. Just days before his death he cried as he told us he killed Egyptian soldiers during the Suez Crisis.