1. Hugo Francis Guy Charteris MC was a noted British novelist and screenwriter, the author of nine novels, 17 television screenplays and numerous children's books and short stories.
13 Facts About Hugo Charteris
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Hugo Charteris's sisters were the socialite Ann Fleming and Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.
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Hugo Charteris was educated at Eton and in 1941 he left to join the Scots Guards.
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Hugo Charteris was twice wounded in the war, and received a Military Cross in Italy for defending his position against continuous enemy attack.
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Hugo Charteris then went to Oxford where he read English at Trinity College for a few frustrating terms.
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Hugo Charteris retired from full-time journalism in 1951 when he decided to settle in Sutherland, intending to live as a novelist.
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Hugo Charteris went on to write eight further novels to great critical acclaim.
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Hugo Charteris later developed a strong friendship with Mosley's son, Nicholas Mosley, who inspired a Congo mercenary in that same novel.
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Hugo Charteris still wrote occasional pieces for newspapers and in 1959 interviewed Carl Jung for The Daily Telegraph at Bollingen.
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Hugo Charteris worked with BBC producer Verity Lambert on scripts to adapt his novel, The Coat, into either a film or television series.
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Hugo Charteris wrote, in my opinion, more truthfully about the upper classes than any of his contemporaries.
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Hugo Charteris was noted for his beauty in youth, and later was gauntly handsome.
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Hugo Charteris died of cancer on 20 December 1970, at his home, The Grange, Elvington, Yorkshire, and was buried in St Helen's churchyard, Skipwith, York.