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Why my friend Christopher Robin grew to despise his father A.A. Milne for 'filching his good name'... but transformed his £500million Winnie-the-Pooh fortune into a poignant legacy for his disabled daughter: GYLES BRANDRETH

Why my friend Christopher Robin grew to despise his father A.A. Milne for 'filching his good name'... but transformed his £500million Winnie-the-Pooh fortune into a poignant legacy for his disabled daughter: GYLES BRANDRETH

Once upon a time I knew Christopher Robin - the real Christopher Robin, the boy in the poems and story books written by his father, A. A. Milne. I knew Christopher in the 1980s when he was in his 60s.

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