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Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell (4 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.
Following Lawrence Samuel Durrell's death in 1928, Louisa Durrell and her three surviving younger children moved to the United Kingdom, where Lawrence had already been sent to be educated. In 1935, the Durrells moved to the Greek island of Corfu. They remained there until the summer of 1939, when the impending outbreak of World War II forced ...
Fierce Creatures, a 1997 comedic film about a zoo in peril of being closed written by John Cleese, starring Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin, is dedicated to Gerald Durrell and British humorist Peter Cook in the closing credits, with their photographs and dates of birth and death.
The queen didn’t make a televised address after Margaret’s death, possibly because the grief was still too fresh. Instead, she deputized her son and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, to ...
At the time of Princess Margaret’s death, newspapers noted that her death came on the heels of her longtime struggle with heart and lung problems. Others believed her self-indulgent lifestyle ...
Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie; 16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was a British woman born in India during the British Raj. She was the mother of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell . She was featured in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical Corfu trilogy , which tells about the Durrells' years in Corfu from 1935 to 1939 in a somewhat ...
Early toxicology tests have reportedly revealed Matthew Perry did not have meth or fentanyl in his system at the time of his death, as the investigation into the Friends star’s cause of death ...
Bradley's cause of death is undetermined, [241] as the autopsy could not reveal what he died from, so his death remains a mystery. The Peter Bergmann case is an unsolved mystery pertaining to the death of an unidentified man in County Sligo , Ireland, whose naked body was found on a beach; the autopsy found no signs of drowning or foul play and ...