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5 MY HAVEN – michael dobbs The author and Tory peer, 67, in his study at the family home in Wiltshire one for the Wall best boys super mum maggie and me Walk of life on the cards We’ve lived in our three- This bear represents my My mother Eileen was a This letter from Margaret I used these boots for my This first edition of House 1bedroom Georgian house 2family, who are everything 3hairdresser from the age 4 Thatcher is one of the 5charity walk last year to 6 Of Cards from 1989 is a for 12 years and this is my den to me. I have four boys – Will, of 14 and these are her scissors. first she wrote as Prime raise money for my neighbour constant reminder of how that – no one’s allowed in without 28, and Mike, 26, from my first They’re the only item of hers I Minister. It’s dated 5 May, two Jack Fishwick, 27, who broke his book completely transformed a prior appointment! It’s full marriage – and my second wife have. She died from ovarian days after she won the 1979 neck catastrophically playing my life. I started writing it in a of my things, like these framed Rachel’s boys, Alex, 20, and cancer when she was 50 and I election. I’d worked in her inner rugby in 2014. He’s bravely fit of exasperation on holiday fragments of the Berlin Wall. I Harry, 18. The bear belonged was 26, which is the biggest team since she became party rebuilding his life, but needs after my fall-out with Margaret. lived there for four months in to Mike, who I stupidly named sadness of my life. She was a leader in 1975 and she was constant support. I walked for It was like a form of therapy. 1968 when I was 19 because I after me and thereby caused marvellous woman who did thanking me for my support. I 180 miles from Stonehenge to It was a bestseller and has was in love with a German girl. years of confusion! It reminds everything possible to raise her was the first person to tell her Hertford in eight days and since been published in more I was living in the West with a me of all the wonderful years four kids in poor circumstances. she’d won on election night, raised £40,000, which was split than 30 languages. Now it’s family from the East and I was of chaos and the joys of Whatever the Dobbs family is but we had a huge falling out a between Jack and the Rugby having an amazing second life able to get day visas to the other fatherhood. Harry will be off today, we owe to her. The bottle week before the 1987 election Football Union’s Injured Players with Kevin Spacey in the US side, so I delivered messages for to university soon and the last opener belonged to my father and I was sacked. It was a Foundation. It was so humbling TV series. I’m an executive them and brought things back. to leave home, so things are a Eric and the cribbage board was painful parting, but I didn’t to see how generous people producer on that, and it’s A friend sent me these pieces lot quieter now. I feel blessed my grandfather Theodore’s. know then that it would be were. I plan to do other walks, been the happiest experience after the Wall came down. to have such great kids. He used to take it to the pub. the making of me! but I haven’t told my wife yet! of my professional life. As told to Rob McGibbon. Support Jack Fishwick and others in his position by donating to the RFU Injured Players Foundation at rfuipf.org.uk.

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ho On this day in 1947 the first version of Anne Frank’s diary, Het Achterhuis, was published in Holland

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