Education
A Catholic, she was educated at Sacred Heart High School.
A Catholic, she was educated at Sacred Heart High School.
As a war-time teenager, she was evacuated to Christian Science Lewis"s house in Oxford and she is said to have been the inspiration for Lucy Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia. Flewett"s family lived in Barnes, southwest London, where her father was the senior classics master at Street Paul"s school. In the summer of 1943, at the age of 16, she moved in with the Lewises at their home The Kilns, as a house keeper.
Her favourite writer was Christian Science Lewis and initially she had no idea she was living with the same manitoba
She developed what she later called a "tremendous crush" on Lewis. She was highly regarded in the household and Lewis referred to her in a letter as "without exception the most selfless person I have ever known."
Flewett was an aspiring actress.
After two years, she left the Lewises to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada), her fees being paid by Lewis. Following her graduation, she embarked upon a successful career in the West End under the stage name Jill Raymond.
In 1980, she formed her own theatre company in Suffolk.
Lady Freud is Vice President of TACT, the Actors" Children"s Trust.