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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: How High Court judge Sir Oliver Popplewell helped heal trauma of cellist Jacqueline du Pre love triangle daughter

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Much more of her family's life has been exposed to public scrutiny than Clare Finzi would ever have cared for.

The book tore open scars from Clare’s childhood, while the film shattered her relationship with her mother and caused her to speak candidly about her father – a man, she said, who ‘had several affairs’, with women who were ‘lost and unsure of themselves’. But this week, the publication of a will prompts Clare, now 59, to pay tribute to the man she says who became and remained ‘like a father to her’ – High Court judge Sir Oliver Popplewell, who died last summer aged 96. That’s a slightly arrogant statement to make.’ Is Sir Brian still sore that Taylor’s far from profound I’m In Love With My Car was chosen as the B-side to Bohemian Rhapsody, racking up equal publishing royalties to the chart-topper?

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