Terence Rattigan
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Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background.
Portrait of Rattigan by Allan Warren
Henry Channon
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Sir Henry Channon, known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative Party politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling t
Terence Rattigan
…being his "congenial companion ... and occasional friend" Michael Franklin. From 1944 to January 1947 he enjoyed a volatile affair with the politician Henry "Chips" Channon who detailed the relationship in his diary published posthumously in 2022. It has been claimed his work is essentially autobiographical, containing…
1930 portrait