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Keynes was born in London, the son of Zelfa Cecil (née Hourani) and author Randal Keynes. He has an older sister, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4. His maternal grandparents were Furugh Afnan and Cecil Fadlo Hourani, who was an advisor to the late Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba, as well as an author; Cecil Hourani is also the brother of Albert Hourani, a major historian of the Middle East. The Hourani family were immigrants to England from Deir Mimas in southern Lebanon.

On his father's side, Keynes is the grandson of physiologist Richard Keynes, the nephew of historian and Cambridge professor Simon Keynes, and the great-great-nephew of economistJohn Maynard Keynes. His great-great-great-grandfather was naturalist Charles Darwin, through whom he is descended from Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (uncle to both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard), thus making him distantly related to Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward I. Keynes' great-grandparents were Nobel Prize laureateEdgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian, through whom he is also related to the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Keynes is also related to the poet Ruth Padel and, through his ancestral connection to the Wedgwood family, to socialist politician Tony Benn.

Keynes attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005, having attended Thornhill Primary school from 1996-2002. He currently attends the all-boys City of London School. He sat his GCSEs in May and June 2008 and started Sixth Form and his first year of his A-level studies the following September. He is doing biology, chemistry, maths, further maths and history at A-level.  In October 2010 he began his degree in Arabic and Islamic History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He currently writes as a film critic for the review section ofThe Citizen, the City of London School weekly school newspaper. He is a fan of English football club Arsenal.

Keynes currently resides in Highbury, London.

have you ever

have you ever loved somebody so much it makes you cry?
have you ever needed something so bad you can't sleep at night?
have you ever tried to find the words but they don't come out right? 


have you ever been in love, been in love so bad 
you'd do anything to make them understand? 
have you ever had someone steal your heart away? 
you'd give anything to make them feel the same? 
have you ever searched for words to get you in their heart 
but you don't know what to say and you don't know where to start?


have you ever found the one you've dreamed of all your life? 
you'd do just about anything to look into their eyes? 
have you finally found the one you've given your heart to 
only to find that one won't give their heart to you? 
have you ever closed your eyes and dreamed that they were there? 
and all you can do is wait for that day when they will care?


have you ever?