The character of Winnie the Pooh and his company is no longer exclusive to Disney, so movies or other productions can now be created that give the bear a twist and even make him a murderer.
This is the case in the 2023 horror film “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey”, where the bear and his friends thirst for blood and terrorize a teenage Christopher Robin.
However, although the story of this new creation seems far removed from reality or the ever-loving idea of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, the real Christopher Robin did not have a life as beautiful as the one in his stories.
The sad story of the real Christopher Robin from “Winnie the Pooh”
Just as the new movie put a horror twist on the classic Winnie the Pooh story, real-life author AA Milne changed the story of Christopher Robin’s son to create the children’s books.
Christopher Robin Milne was born in London on August 21, 1920, with his father and mother spending weekends at their country house in East Sussex, the place that served as the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh’s Wood.
As reported by the New York Public Library in August 2016, for Christopher Robin’s first birthday, his father bought him a teddy bear named Edward Bear.
Although the child would later name her Winnie, inspired by a bear of that name from London Zoo. So his father started writing the “Winnie the Pooh” stories.
The inspiration for the children’s book ‘Winnie the Pooh’ came from AA Milne and his wife Daphne, seeing the way Christopher was always playing with his teddy bear.
By 1926 AA Milne’s first book with illustrations by EH Shepard became a hit and many people sent letters to Christopher Robin when they discovered the boy in the story was real.
According to the BBC and an article about the boy’s life in January 2016, Christopher Robin had to answer every letter that came to him, albeit with the help of his nanny.
His parents did not hide his son’s fame and at the age of only 7 he participated in competitions, did many photo shoots (some where he was alone) and voice recordings of the book “Winnie the Pooh”.
In 1927 Christopher performed in front of 350 guests at a party, reciting parts of the books and singing the song ‘The Friend’. But by 1930 his father decided to give him a break from fame and sent him to a boarding school.
Even so, life for Christopher would not be easy and he would end up hating the fictional version of himself. Well, the other kids at school have been bullying him for years and even his neighbors have been torturing him with his record disc.
Many judged him to be unlike the Christopher Robin of the stories, although as he said in his memoir “The Enchanted Places” from 1974: they criticized him without knowing him and based only on the idea of a character.
The real Christopher Robin hated ‘Winnie the Pooh’
In real life, no one in his family called him Christopher, instead preferring to call him Billy, but even so, many, many people had a hard time separating him from the character in the books.
Growing up things did not improve for Christopher, after he left university he struggled to find work and in his memoirs he said he felt this was because his father cared more about his own career than his son’s future.
Because Robin wanted to write a book without AA Milne, his parents quarreled with him and cut him out of their lives. His mom even threw away a statue of her son and buried it in the ground.
In the end, the relationship with his parents deteriorated and they almost never saw each other again, even on their deathbeds. He eventually made peace with his memory and also with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Kanga, his childhood dolls.
In 1987, Christopher Robin gave the original stuffed animals from when he was a child that inspired the “Winnie the Pooh” stories to the New York Public Library, where they are still on display today.
In 1981 he participated in a tribute to his father by unveiling a statue in honor of Winnie the Pooh at London Zoo. The real-life Christopher Robin died in 1996.
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Source: univision
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