Let’s cut straight to the chase: Yes, David Attenborough’s children are very much alive. He has two, and they’re both doing their own cool things in the world. So you can stop imagining a sad, lonely old man feeding pigeons in a park. He’s got a family, just like your weird uncle who collects fossils.
The children are Robert Attenborough and Susan Attenborough. Yes, Susan is a woman—don’t get confused by the name. David and his late wife, Jane, raised them away from the glaring spotlight of nature documentaries. And no, they didn’t grow up in a treehouse with a chimp for a nanny. Though that would’ve been adorable.