How old is Duke Peaky Blinders?

Duke's proper first name is Erasmus and - with Tommy and Duke's mum meeting in 1914 and series 6 being set in 1934 - he is around 19 years old.
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How old are they in Peaky Blinders?

During the 1890s, youth street gangs consisted of men between the ages of 12 and 30. The late 1890s saw the organisation of these men into a soft hierarchy. The most violent of these youth street gangs organised themselves as a singular group known as the "Peaky Blinders".
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Is Duke Tommy's son?

Erasmus 'Duke' Shelby is the illegitimate firstborn son of Thomas Shelby and a women called Zelda, as well as being the half-brother of Charles and Ruby Shelby.
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Who is the oldest in Peaky Blinders?

The bulldog of the Shelby family and Peaky Blinders. The eldest brother, Arthur is more brawn than brains.
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Is Arthur Shelby older than Thomas?

Thomas Shelby

Thomas is Arthur's younger brother and the two share a complex but close relationship. Despite being the oldest of the Shelby brothers, Arthur is not the leader of the Peaky Blinders, which is something that often comes between the two brothers, with Arthur frequently trying to prove himself to Tommy.
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How old is Ruby Shelby in season 6?

In season six, episode three 'Gold', vengeance did come. Tommy's seven-year-old daughter Ruby died of tuberculosis, after hearing voices, seeing visions and speaking the Romani words for the devil. Ruby died from a curse laid in retaliation for Tommy having passed on an already-cursed sapphire to the Barwell family.
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How old is Polly GREY in Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders Season 1 begins right after World War I in 1919. This makes Polly 35 when we're first introduced to her character. In season 2, she's 38. By season 3, she's 40.
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How old is Arthur Shelby meant to be?

Arthur Shelby Jr (Paul Anderson) is Tommy's older brother and in season five is 42-years-old.
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Is Tommy older than John?

Tommy Shelby

John admires his older brother.
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Is Ada older than John?

Ada Shelby was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, England in 1897, the daughter of Irish immigrant worker Arthur Shelby, Sr. and a Romani mother. She was the younger sister of Arthur Shelby, Tommy Shelby, and John Shelby and the older sister of Finn Shelby.
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How old is Thomas Shelby?

Shelby himself is reportedly 29 years old during the show's first season. Meanwhile, the real-life Peaky Blinders were largely tweens and teens.
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What did Tommy whisper to Duke?

One thing is for sure, Tommy has made clear his intentions for Duke to be his successor, naming Duke the "Dark" and his other son Charlie the "Light," and Duke's loyalty to Tommy and the Peaky haircut seems to suggest things are heading in that direction.
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What did Tommy whisper in Duke's ear?

That whisper is the semi-public admission that Tommy is shaking his blood-stained hands with Duke, and expecting him to carry on his dark deeds.
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Who is the youngest Shelby?

Finn Shelby is the youngest son of Arthur and Mrs. Shelby, youngest brother of Arthur, Thomas, John and Ada Shelby, as well as being the husband of Mary Shelby. Finn is a former member of the Peaky Blinders gang, having been banished from the family for his carelessness as a gang member.
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What does Tommy Shelby smoke?

Treatment. Thomas Shelby and Danny Whizz-Bang's method for easing stress and symptoms involves the smoking of brown opium with a clay pipe. In the first episode, Thomas is seen lighting the opium and putting it to flame, then drawing from it.
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How old is Michael in Peaky Blinders?

However, when she reconciles with her son Michael in episode three, he reveals he is only 17-years-old.
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Are Polly and Arthur siblings?

Elizabeth "Polly" Gray (née Shelby) was the mother of Michael and Anna Gray, aunt of Arthur, Thomas, John, Ada and Finn Shelby, as well as being the matriarch of the Shelby Family. She was part of the Birmingham criminal gang, The Peaky Blinders, a certified accountant and company treasurer of Shelby Company Limited.
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Was Shelby's family real?

Technically, Peaky Blinders follows the Shelby family, a gang of outlaws who infiltrated late 19th-century England — the Shelby's weren't reported to be real people, but the Peaky Blinders gang did exist.
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Are Charlie and Polly related?

Charlie is Tommy's mother's brother, isn't he? And she never mentioned he was her brother when he showed up. I don't think the writer was very bothered with such details at the beginning hence Finn suddenly ageing overnight. Polly is Arthur's sister, that's why she's a Shelby, later Gray.
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Was Polly Gray a real person?

The protagonists poured onto the page. Aunt Polly Gray (Helen McCrory) was a real person and she was terrifying – all the men were scared of her. Arthur (Paul Anderson) was an uncle called Fred.
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How many kids did John Shelby?

She is the mother of four of John Shelby's children. Martha raised their children while he was away at war, and appears to have been a good mother and wife. She died before the first series begins. Not much is known about her and the cause of her death is unexplained.
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Why is Polly short for Elizabeth Peaky Blinders?

My name is Polly. According to my mother, she named me Elizabeth at first, because the name means 'God's promise'. But I soon became Pollyanna. The God who made the promise called me Pol for short.
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How Polly died in Peaky Blinders?

But without McCrory, the show acted swiftly in deciding Polly's fate. In the opening of Peaky Blinders' sixth season, it's revealed that Polly has been killed by the very same people who ruined Tommy's assassination plan against Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin) in the season 5 finale.
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