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unusual facts about Virginia Bottomley


The Higher Mortals

On the day that education secretary Mrs Fry (who somewhat resembles the then government minister Virginia Bottomley) arrives to speak at the school's Speech Day, she is kidnapped by the inner-city children and tells them, incorrectly, that she will announce that the scheme of sending inner-city children to Crabbe College was a pointless waste of time and that the school was outmoded anyway.


Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom

Thus the husband of Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone is called Peter Bottomley and has no courtesy title.


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