Simon Alexandra: A Renaissance Man

There is no central register for christening. So if somebody would like to inquire whether they were baptized, they'd unfortunately have to go back to local churches and ask to go through the registers. Some churches will charge a 10 pound fee. The more likely it is that if they were christened, it would have been in a nearby church. Practically, if somebody was unsure that they had been baptized, certainly in the church of England, we would do something called a conditional baptism. It's all written by hand, the registers. And you can't be baptized more than once.