A Brief History of Winnie-the-Pooh

All Grown Up

Christopher Robin Milne, pictured here with his fiance Lesley Selincourt in 1948, received a scholarship to Cambridge,
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All Grown Up
Christopher Robin Milne, pictured here with his fiancée Lesley Selincourt in 1948, received a scholarship to Cambridge but took a break from his studies to serve in the British army in World War II. During his service, he began to resent what he saw as his father's exploitation of his childhood and grew to dislike Pooh and the books that made him famous. He wrote three autobiographical books, one of which gave an account of his childhood and the problems he encountered because of his father's creation.

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