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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.
Christopher Robin MILNE (1920-1996) Wife: Lesley Elizabeth DE SELINCOURT (1925- ) Marriage. 24 Jul 1948. Brompton, Middlesex. Husband: Christopher Robin MILNE. Name: Christopher Robin MILNE.
- Christopher Robin MILNE (1920-1996)
- Lesley Elizabeth DE SELINCOURT (1925- )
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. Together they...
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,...
In 1948, he became engaged to Lesley de Sélincourt, a cousin on his mother's side, and they married in July that year. He occasionally saw his father after the elder Milne grew ill, but once his father died, he did not see his mother during the last 15 years of her life; and she even refused to see him on her deathbed.
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...
In 1948, he married Lesley de Sélincourt, a cousin on his mother’s side, and cut himself off almost completely from his parents. He and his wife moved to Dartmouth in 1951 and opened the ...
