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Storyville: Inheriting The Castle review: The sad real-life Cinderella waiting for a Prince Charming to share her castle, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


Fairy tales aren't all they're cracked up to be. Justina Olivo is a real-life Cinderella, the maidservant granted her own castle by a magical godmother.

Now 60, she began life as a housemaid aged just five, an indigenous South American child working for a wealthy Spanish-speaking family outside Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Justina Olivo (left, with daughter Alexia) is a real-life Cinderella, the maidservant granted her own castle by a magical godmother When her employers took holidays to Europe, Justi looked after the house, with its high windows, its turret and the surrounding cattle ranch.

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