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How the sexual adventuress who created Mary Poppins wrecked the lives of two innocent boys: Exploits of P L Travers that you won't see in new film Saving Mr Banks
- Pamela L Travers took in only one of the two twin brothers she said she'd adopt in 1940
- Camillus Hone whisked off by her to privileged life; while Anthony was left with neglectful relatives
- London-born actor Lawrence Campbell was ‘the first in a long chain of men who would, in [Travers'] words, pass her from one to the other’
By DAVID JONES FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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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 1940 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.