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The Real Christopher Robin: The Dark Side of a Beloved Story

10:11 by The Historian
Christopher Robin MilneWinnie-the-PoohA.A. MilneHundred Acre Woodchildren's literatureliterary historyboarding school bullyingchildhood fameAshdown Forest1926 literature

Show Notes

In October 1926, A.A. Milne published 'Winnie-the-Pooh,' giving the world a beloved bear and his friend Christopher Robin. What the world didn't see was the real Christopher Robin Milne - a boy whose identity was consumed by his father's creation. Mercilessly bullied at boarding school, estranged from his parents, and forever trapped in the Hundred Acre Wood of public imagination, his story reveals the dark price of becoming a children's character.

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