Roald Dahl
 Roald Dahl        ( spook, author, poet, pilot) | |
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| Born | 1916-09-13 Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Died | 1990-11-23 (Age 74) Oxford, England, UK |
| Children | • Olivia Dahl • Tessa Dahl • Theo Dahl • Ophelia Dahl • Lucy Dahl |
| Spouse | Patricia Neal |
Spooky UK author | |
Dead child
Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl went on to be married for 30 years - during which time, Neal christened him 'Roald the Rotten', for his extramarital affairs and unpleasant personal disposition - and produced five children, the eldest of whom was Olivia. Olivia, it is reported, died on the 12th November, 1962, at the age of seven, allegedly of measles.
Olivia was a healthy child from an affluent family, with no existing co-morbidities, so the statistical chances of her dying from measles are extraordinarily low: roughly in the region of 0.01% or less. Measles deaths are typically associated with severe malnutrition, of the type one would find in the third world, and are vanishingly rare in well-nourished first-world children. Most deaths from childhood illnesses were eradicated in the West in the early 1900s, by improvements in nutrition, hygiene, and plumbing.
It is, in short, a stroke of extraordinary bad luck that a child like Olivia, from a family like the Dahls, should even suffer any lasting effects from measles - as the overwhelming majority of children in the 1960s did not - let alone die.
Yet, apparently, she did die, which enabled her propagandist father to become a prominent and aggressive advocate for the measles vaccine, once it was introduced later that decade. Dahl even went so far as to suggest parents who didn’t get this vaccine for their children should be criminalised.[1][2]
Freemasonry
[Bradley Kime]] in a 2013 study pointed out that though Dahl himself was not a Freemason, there were in his book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory "remarkable parallels between the factory tour and a rite of passage prevalent in Dahl's cultural milieu - Masonic initiation".[3]
