Documents on the As the Trustees seized my possessions five years ago, one of them sneered, “We act in all these high-profile political cases, you know.” Now the boot is on the other foot. Watched by hidden CCTV cameras, a seven-ton truck reverses gingerly through the gates of our Windsor home, bringing back 150 boxes of archive files illegally seized with our home in Grosvenor Square five years ago.
October 15, 2007 (Monday) Windsor – Wiltshire – Windsor (England) I HAD very enjoyable dreams of meeting Carla Venchiarutti again — she worked with me — I told her in the dream it was 1982 that I last saw her. Probably correct, too. At two p.m. I drive down to Wiltshire and load up the last two heavy boxes of my stuff (returned some years ago on my demand from the German Bundesarchiv). I joke that next month may see the tide reversed and everything coming back!
My brother, not joking, says that is out of the question. His warehouse is now packed with factory stuff, as his own orders boom. Nick Jackson of the newspaper The Independent was going to come out here and do a face-to-face interview for their newspaper. A hush fell on the arrangements for some days, and yesterday I asked if I should put the file away. He has replied today: “I’m afraid so. After long conversation on this, my editor decided she did not think it was appropriate.”
No skin off my nose, but so much for “Independence”. The same newspaper sent Marianne Macdonald , the Girl in Black Stockings, to interview me ten years ago; she was twenty-eight then, and probably looks even better now than she did then. These things matter. She did a super feature profile with whole-page photographs, which The Independent published
on April 6, 1997; only The Sunday Telegraph ever published a more favorable profile article than that; oh, and Naomi Bliven in The New Yorker . — “What cowards,” I tell Nick. ” Oxford University is in uproar at the mere thought I may come and address the union , and your editor buries her head in the sand…” October 16, 2007 (Tuesday) Windsor (England) TODAY the possessions wrongfully seized by the court-appointed Trustees in May 2002 come