The S.S.Normandie, on which Christopher Hurst made a boyhood holiday trip to France.
christopher Hurst, Born 1929
A CHILDHOOD WITH A LOVING NANNY
This account of his childhood is extracted from Christopher Hurst’s autobiography ‘The View from King Street’. It describes his upbringing in the prosperous surroundings of Ascot, Berkshire, with a household staff of nine including a much loved Nanny and a redoubtable chauffeur who drove the Rolls-Royce. His father, Sir Arthur Hurst, had made his name with pioneering treatment of the traumatic effects on soldiers of the First World War. He later became a distinguished physician at Guy’s Hospital and in private practice. In this extract from his autobiography, Christopher Hurst describes his early upbringing, and his time at the Earleywood preparatory school. After Eton and Oxford he founded a publishing company which still bears his name.
Source: This extract from Christopher Hurst’s autobiography (‘The View from King Street’, published by Thalia Press in 1997) was archived in 2021 with acknowledgement and thanks. The Postscript was archived from the www.opendemocracy.net website.