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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Friends including Queen Camilla's son Tom Parker Bowles pay tribute as Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman's grandson dies suddenly aged 49
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: His grandfather, Sir John Betjeman, earned a place in the public's heart unequalled by any other Poet Laureate since Lord Tennyson.
His grandfather, Sir John Betjeman, earned a place in the public's heart unequalled by any other Poet Laureate since Lord Tennyson, while his mother, Candida, dazzled a generation of men in her youth and had become a friend of King Charles by the time she died of cancer in 2014 aged 71. Whereas Candida co-authored a book with the King about the royal garden at Highgrove, Dave – as Lycett Green was known – opted for a less conventional path, summarised by his younger brother John in an online tribute as 'friend of the homeless, proud tramp, kind, generous, brave, courageous, humble, honest'. They make an unlikely duo, but when Amy Winehouse's mother, Janis, and Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia met at a West End reception for Healing The Wounded Child, they soon bonded – over tempestuous times with ex-husbands.
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