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‘The horses who made me’

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

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The Princess Royal’s lifelong expertise with horses was sealed with the top award at 1971’s European Eventing Championship, the same year she became the first member of the Royal Family to scoop the B

At the age of five, the celebrated children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson attended London’s Festival of Britain – a summer of activities and exhibitions around the South Bank to throw off the postwa