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Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship
By Frances Woodsford
Chatto & Windus 383pp £15.99 order from our bookshop
‘We all love the little boy,’ noted Frances Woodsford in November 1952, ‘but whenever I have seen the whole family on the screen, the Duke of Edinburgh is invariably looking after his daughter, and leaving Charles severely alone. I can imagine he doesn’t allow his son to get spoiled, but perhaps he thinks a father should spoil his daughter a bit.’
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