He was the most famous little boy in literature – but the inspiration for Christopher Robin spent most of his life despising the character his father had created in his image.
Millions of fans around the world still adore AA Milne’s poems and stories about the enchanting child and his best pal Winnie-the-Pooh.
But Christopher Milne – who would have turned 100 on Friday – felt such a huge pressure to be as happy and cute as the fictional boy, he often behaved more like grumpy donkey Eeyore than bouncy Tigger.
And while the Winnie-the-Pooh books smashed records and sold in their millions, he found them to be a source of “toe-curling, fist-clenching, lip-biting, embarrassment”.
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