Imagine for a minute that John Logie Baird was around at the peak of the Industrial Revolution, and invented his television around the year 1800. By around 1810 we’d have regular TV news broadcasts. Around 1834,

In 2007, Rees-Mogg married into further money. His wife, Helena de Chair, is the daughter of the aristocrat Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Tadgell, who inherited the Fitzwilliam family’s £45 million fortune at age 13. De Chair stands to inherit everything.

"I don't want to be a celebrity," former Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg insists when I ask him why he, his wife and six children have decided to take part in a Kardashian-esque reality series called Meet the Rees-Moggs.

Mogg's wife Lady Helena de Chair has spoken about her marriage to the former Conservative MP, and how it wasn't 'love at first sight' for the couple

He presents a new reality show about his ultra-traditional family. He lives in a mansion with its own chapel, where he attends Latin mass on Sundays. He has six children baptized with names of medieval monks,

Mogg's upcoming reality series takes viewers behind-the-scenes of his 2024 election campaign and inside his multi-million pound country pile

With his pinstripe suits, impeccable manners and a tendency to quote Latin, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has long cut a distinctive figure in British politics, like a curiosity from another age.