A Very Private Celebrity (42 page)

Father Horace: ‘He did not suffer fools.’

Mother Beatrice: ‘My pretty, silly mother.’

Baby John at his christening.

JF in the second rowing VIII at Westminster School, 1930 (back row, second from left): ‘He rows like the village blacksmith.’

Hunger marchers demonstrating in Trafalgar Square, October 1932: ‘The school has heard the voice of England’s forgotten people.’

Major Freeman home on leave.

General Montgomery surveys the desert battlefield at 22nd Armoured Brigade HQ, August 1942. Freeman’s CO, Brigadier Roberts, is on Monty’s left.

Allied victory parade through Tunis, May 1943.

John Freeman MP, 1946: ‘On every side is a spirit of high adventure.’  

The Minister of Supply tries to show interest while visiting an aircraft factory in 1948.

JF looking unwell on his election poster, Watford, 1951.

Groom and bride: Tom Driberg and Ena Binfield.  

The best man with Lizi and Mima in the front pew. Nye Bevan is behind, in the centre.

The Goldie boys in a
Panorama
production meeting, 1958. On the left is Richard Dimbleby; four from left is Christopher Chataway; then JF and Woodrow Wyatt; then, two along, Robert Kee.