For me, the real revelation was not that he is a direct descendant of both Thomas Cromwell and Edward III, but that he is actually like that in real life. It must be exhausting being that much of a cockney geezer 24/7. Photographs are invariably 'smudges', houses are 'gaffs' and any woman with whom he converses (including a historian) is 'babe'.
Honestly one of the funniest hours of TV I've seen all year.
Everything kept doing his nut in.
He'd clearly set his Cockney dial to max. I didn't think he'd be able to keep it up for the entire episode, but I badly underestimated his Cockney powers. He and Ray Winstone are now neck-and-neck (Gregory-and-Gregory?) for the title of 'World's Most Cockney Geezer'.
I can't see the words 'Danny Dyer' without thinking of this: