By Sophie Law For Mailonline
Published: 10:26 BST, 14 April 2019 | Updated: 12:30 BST, 14 April 2019
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Boris Johnson was raised by a chain-smoking nanny who 'became part of the family' while his mother was in and out of hospital with crippling mental health issues.
The nanny became the former foreign secretary's 'second mother', while his own was forced to leave the family to be treated for 'galloping' obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression.
Boris and his three siblings moved to Brussels with the nanny in the 1970s, who 'steered the long-haired, collapsing Johnson clan' while their mother was ill.
Father Stanley relocated them to the Belgian capital after securing a job as a civil servant for the European commission.
Boris Johnson was raised by a chain-smoking nanny who 'became part of the family' while his mother was in and out of hospital with crippling mental health issues
Mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, who was an esteemed artist, was struggling to balance life in a new country, her portrait paintings, four 'precocious' children and OCD
But their mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, who was an esteemed artist, struggled to balance life in a new country, her portrait paintings, four 'precocious' children and OCD.
She was later
