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15th November 2022

Audrey Hepburn (1929-93) is known the world over as an outstanding English film actress. She was, however, born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles in Brussels. Her complicated peripatetic childhood and teenage years in Belgium, Holland, and England may account for her unique accent which worked to her advantage when she played a 'European' princess in the wonderful Roman Holiday (1953).

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