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Revealed: How Bread matriarch Ma Boswell made a lot of dough! Jean Boht's extraordinary journey from humble Wirral childhood to huge fortune living in £2.75millon Windsor home - and neighbours with the Queen


Vveteran actress Jean Boht rose from a relatively humble upbringing on the Wirral to amass a huge fortune with her American composer husband Carl Davis

But veteran actress Jean Boht rose from a relatively humble upbringing on the Wirral to amass a huge fortune with her American composer husband Carl Davis – and live in palatial luxury in an eight bedroom Georgian town house as near neighbours of the late Queen. Features included a unique central staircase extending the full height of the house, a stained-glass window, fine period fireplaces, oak flooring, original servants’ bells and high ceilings with moulded cornices. It also had walled gardens with a patio providing an ‘al fresco’ dining area and steps to a lawn, edged by well stocked herbaceous borders with magnolia, walnut, weeping willow and plum trees.

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