Camillus travers hone obituary band

The scene is a chaotic house in the Dublin suburbs filled with the cries of four little children. Born to a feckless father and an inept mother, they have been dumped into the care of their grandparents, who plainly cannot cope. The year is and, desperate to reduce their burden, the grandparents arrange for the two youngest of the brood — twin brothers, aged six months — to be adopted by a trusted family friend from London.

She left his twin brother Anthony at the mercy of neglectful relatives.

Camillus travers twin brother

When she arrives, however, she blithely insists she can only take one of the twins and having consulted her astrologer to ensure she has made the right selection picks the first-born boy, the bonnier and more placid of the two. But his rejected brother, Anthony, is left behind in Ireland, to be foisted onto neglectful relatives.

Thus, on the whim of one self-centred woman, were two lives mapped out. The movie, Saving Mr Banks, charts the fractious relationship between the author, played by Emma Thompson, and Walt Disney Tom Hanks who pursued Travers for almost 20 years before persuading her to sell him the rights to her Mary Poppins books. When the boys reunited aged 17, they had experienced such vastly different upbringings that their only apparent bond was an over-fondness for drinking.

Above, Travers with Camillus. Exploring the titanic clash of egos that had to be surmounted before Disney could make the blockbuster musical, it is, by all accounts a rollicking tale.