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Prince Charles came to dinner and recited poems by McGonagall until 4am ; long-time business partner, collaborator and friend Peter Sellers did not. Dusty Springfield popped round; however, Harry Secombe the third Goon was absent. Children were sent to private schools, but exam results were not revered. Discipline was nonexistent, but daily routine was unassailable.
Wives and children were acquired aplenty. But deep, passionate, all-encompassing love was heartfelt and never in short supply. And if Jane Milligan the fourth of Spike Milligan's six children is anything to go by, you can't make assumptions about Spike's offspring either. If you want a celebrity daughter trading on her father's name and living off his money, dripping labels and names, then this unassuming actor and musician is not the scion for you.
Jane, 44, still lives in Barnet, in suburban north London, near to where the family grew up in a large but neat house, an "above-ground" pool their only nod to the trappings of stardom. Calm, unassuming, with salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful blue eyes, Jane is at the heart of the Milligan clan there are three other official siblings, plus two slightly unexpected ones and tries to keep communications between them open. He was not an absentee father. And he surrounded us with a fierce, unforgettable love.
He may have died eight years ago, but I still feel that love now. I hear his voice. We all do. That "full-on" fatherhood was very much thrust upon Spike in the early 60s — a time when men were still not expected to care for their children, particularly if they were tiny.
Three years later, he married again, to Paddy Ridgeway, a musical theatre actor, whom he had met on the set of Invasion Quartet. And Paddy was remarkable — she just took on this ready-made family, gave up her career and cared for Spike, who was at the height of his comedic powers, popularity and success.
She even brought June back into their lives and found a 'place' for her, for my siblings' sake. And their social set included Princess Margaret as well as Eric Sykes and Neil Shand, the writers and performers and people of the day. I suppose they were a kind of groovy It Couple.
That was before my time, of course; after they had families, that changed and they became more like colleagues. When Jane was six, she was playing with her mother and accidentally "banged" Paddy's breast. I was in shock at what I had seemed to do. In hospital, Paddy was diagnosed with breast cancer, at the age of 37, and had a mastectomy, the start of six years of treatment.
In typical Milligan fashion, nothing was sacred. We did everything together, from all the tourist things like the Empire State Building and Long Island to her letting me drive a car, and allowing me a grown-up drink. Thinking how she planned this big farewell makes me love her even more. Paddy died the following February. He had tried to tell me she was dying; nothing was hidden.
And afterwards he cried and cried, and then expressed his pain through his creativity and writing. Before Paddy's death, Spike had worked and slept at his Bayswater office in London during the week, returning to the family home at weekends. Now he gave that up, telling the children not to worry, that he would be with them all the time now. Rob Farr. A very good entertainment trivia question and brief but accurate explanation Dec 1, AM. Jacqueline Tattam.
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