Stephen le la Bédoyère remembers his father Michael, who edited the Catholic Herald between 1934 and 1962, on the 50th anniversary of his death.
In 1951 our family moved to Wimbledon from the charming manor house that my father, Michael de la Bédoyère – who died on July 13, 1973 – had bought near Edenbridge at the start of the Second World War so that we would be safe from impending enemy action. It was a bad miscalculation, for in 1943 I was born to the sound of bombers criss-crossing the skies overhead.
