Instead, Lee attended Wellington College where he won scholarships in classics. Lee later claimed in his autobiography that James had cut a very impressive figure sixty years later Lee played the part of M.R. Lee applied unsuccessfully for a scholarship to Eton although the interview was to prove portentous because of the presence of the noted ghost story author M.
His mother then married Harcourt "Ingle" Rose, a banker and uncle of the James Bond author Ian Fleming. The family returned to London where Christopher attended Wagner's private school. After enrolling in Miss Fisher's Academy in Wengen, he played his first villainous role as Rumpelstiltskin. His parents separated when he was very young and his mother took Lee and his sister to Switzerland. Lee's maternal great-grandfather had been an Italian political refugee who sought refuge in Australia his great-grandmother was Australian opera singer Marie Carandini. Lee's mother was a famous Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, as well as Oswald Birley and Olive Snell, and was sculpted by Clare F. Sir Christopher was born on May 27 in Belgravia, Westminster, England, the son of the Contessa Marie and Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Lee of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps.
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