Emily Mortimer on her father’s advice: You can be anything as long as you are not boring
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Emily Mortimer grew up with the Mitfords, in a manner of speaking. In the white, 1930s house with its pale-green slate roof in Turville Heath on the edge of the Chiltern Hills – which her father, the late QC and
Rumpole of the Bailey writer, John Mortimer, had inherited from his blind barrister father, Clifford – there would be frequent talk about that eccentric family, with its six famous daughters (and one son) of Lord and Lady Redesdale, known as Farve and Muv.
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