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[...] Madresfield is Brideshead, and the Lygon family is the absolute model for the Flytes, for Sebastian and Bridie and Julia and so on. With this first husband, Direktor C. P. Dornonville de la Cour, by whom she had a daughter, she lived in Copenhagen, the city where she was born and in which she was brought up by her grandmother, her mother having abdicated all parental responsibility when her husband left her early on in the marriage. [...] the royal evacuees never turned up, but all was kept in readiness for their arrival, two bedrooms for the lit-tle princesses, one in pink, one in blue, with a room for Lady Beauchamp permanently booked at a hotel in Malvern in case the King and Queen should choose to accom-pany their daughters.
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House of Memories
Selina Hastings recalls her visit in 1989 to Lady Beauchamp, mistress of Madresfield
Madresfield: the name is now almost as lustrous with literary association as Little Gidding or Adlestrop. To the admirers of Evelyn Waugh, Madresfield is hallowed ground: 'It's where Waugh stayed, you know, when he was writing Brideshead Revisited. In fact Madresfield is Brideshead, and the Lygon family is the absolute model for the Flytes, for Sebastian and Bridie and Julia and so on. I mean, lo...See the full content of this document
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