The Telegraph sits next to Jenny’s favoured armchair in a cosy living room leading on to a sun-drenched courtyard garden. The house is comfortably cluttered with the oversized brown furniture, numerous family pictures and much-loved objets indicating that, at some point, dramatic downsizing has taken place.
Over cups of tea, Jenny confides that ‘the Memorial will be a more difficult day, I think, than the cremation, but organising it is keeping me busy.’ Edward was a governor of the King’s Rochester school, a director of the French Hospital Almhouses, steward of the Cathedral and Custodian of Restoration House, ‘So he was involved with most of the things that happened in Rochester.’ In the event, the service took place last Wednesday, 13.
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