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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Pals mourn the king of Centre Court cool, Tim Henman's father
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: He never sought the spotlight yet, thanks to his unflinching stoicism and self-restraint - displayed each year at Wimbledon - became known to millions.
He never sought the spotlight yet, thanks to his unflinching stoicism and self-restraint - displayed each year at Wimbledon- became known to millions, while his loyalty and discretion endeared him to the Prince and Princess of Wales, and, particularly, to Catherine's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton. All are now mourning Tony Henman, who, I can disclose, died last Friday aged 84, and whose 'magnificent, inscrutable calm' while watching his youngest son, Tim, on Centre Court, became, in the words of the Mail's distinguished late tennis correspondent, Mike Dickson, 'one of the great British performances of the [Wimbledon] fortnight'. ‘I wouldn’t work with Steven Seagal again,’ she says of the actor whom she appeared with in Shadow Man and who attended Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as Russian president this week.
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