Author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne and Daphne Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.
born at 11 Mallord Street, Chelsea, where there is a plaque to his father. Died Devon.
On his first birthday in 1921 he received an Alpha Farnell teddy bear, which he later named Edward. Eeyore was a Christmas present in 1921 and Piglet arrived undated. Edward, along with a real Canadian black bear named Winnipeg that Milne saw at London Zoo, eventually became the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh character.
He recorded some of his father's songs, set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson, and was bullied at school for this.
1984 he married Lesley de Sélincourt, a first cousin on his mother's side.
We've read both that he was very close to his father and that, feeling exploited, he became estranged from both parents. Both could be true at different times. On his father's death he did not see his mother for the rest of her life, 15 years, but see her page for a partial explanation.
Sad though this is, it compares favourably with the 'afterlife' of other juvenile literary muses: see Sir J. M. Barrie for the Llewelyn Davies boys and Kenneth Grahame for his son Alastair.
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