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On 11 April 1948, Milne became engaged to Lesley de Sélincourt, a first cousin on his mother's side and daughter of the translator Aubrey de Sélincourt, and they married on 24 July 1948. In 1951, he and his wife moved to Dartmouth , and opened The Harbour Bookshop on 25 August.
Jul 31, 2018 · Christopher Robin Milne was born in Chelsea, London, on Aug. 21, 1920, just 21 months after the Great War ended. He was the first and only child born to former British Army officer Alan Alexander Milne and his wife Daphne de Sélincourt.
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The war enabled Milne to become himself and eventually to break away and live his own life, marrying his cousin Lesley de Selincourt and cutting himself off almost completely from his parents.
Apr 22, 1996 · He married a cousin, Lesley de Selincourt, in 1949 -- again, not his father's preference -- and became a bookseller, settling in Stoke Fleming on England's southwestern coast.
He did marry Lesley de Selincourt in 1948 and they had one daughter, any old child, named Clare Milne. Their daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and she died in 2012, at the age of 56,...
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Apr 22, 1996 · But the grown Christopher Milne displayed a tendency to counter his father's wishes: He married his cousin Lesley de Selincourt in 1949 -- not his father's choice for his bride -- and became a...
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Jun 25, 2020 · At 27, Christopher Robin met a young woman named Lesley de Selincourt, who just so happened to be his first cousin. Since his mother was estranged from her family, he never met that side of the family before.
