Elizabeth Beresford moved to Alderney in the mid 1970s and lived in a house in Little Street, St Anne’s, and was very well known in the island. She lived there until her death in 2010, aged 84.
Appearing at the National Trust’s Nymans Gardens, near Haywards Heath in Sussex, with expert Clive Farahar, Kate took along a first edition of the very first Wombles children’s book, illustrated by Margaret Gordon, with a personal dedication for Kate when she was a youngster.
The book was inscribed, ‘Love to Kate from Mummy and the Wombles, Elizabeth Beresford’
Mr Farahar wanted to know about the ‘lovely PS’, which read: ‘Bungo is really you in disguise, I hope you don’t mind!’
Full story in Friday's Guernsey Press
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