Del Boy never marries. He has had many girlfriends, a fact that is the subject of numerous sarcastic comments by Rodney. He finally meets his partner Raquel Turner (whom he calls his "significant other") in the 1988 special "Dates". Del's mother Joan dies on 12 March 1964, apparently after a long string of illnesses. His lazy father Reginald leaves three months later (on Del's 16th birthday), taking most of their money and even Del's birthday cake. This leaves the teenage Del as the family's sole breadwinner, looking after his grandfather and Rodney, his half-brother who was born around thirteen years after him
From Prussia with Love Marlene following behind both disappointed and crying. Leaving both Del and Rodney to cheer up the baby. From Prussia with Love "From Prussia with Love" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses". It was the first episode of Series 5, and was first broadcast on 31 August 1986. In the episode, the Trotters meet a pregnant German girl and invite her to stay at the flat. During another night at "The Nag's Head", Del Boy, Rodney, and Albert meet a frightened 19-year-old German girl who tells them that she has been in England for a year