Doctor Who: 10 Things We Actually Know About The Doctor's Family

The Doctor's family is a fair bit bigger than you might think.

It Takes You Away revealed that the Doctor had seven grandmothers, which is potentially supposed to refer to seven different regenerations of the same person, and not seven totally different Time Lord grannies.

The Thirteenth Doctor states that Granny Five used to read her bedtime stories about the Solitract. So less the Frog Prince, and more the Frog in the Chair.

Elsewhere, in Vincent and the Doctor, we see Eleven use a species matcher which was gifted to him by a godmother, who apparently had two heads and really bad breath... twice. Whether this godmother was an alien friend of the Doctor's parents or a Time Lord who decided to regenerate into a non-humanoid form is unknown!

And then there's the Doctor's uncle, mentioned in Time and the Rani, who could apparently disprove Einstein's postulation that "all motion is relative". It's also possible that this uncle never married – in The Eleventh Hour, the Doctor relates to young Amelia Pond by telling her that "I don't even have an aunt."

Depending on how you read this line, it could also be a reference to another branch of the family tree that was cruelly felled by the horrors of the Time War.