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‘I’ve been picking f lowers since I was a TODDLER’

I fell in love with flowers as soon as I could walk. Look at me in this picture from my childhood – I was only three and already toddling around picking posies. I’m with my twin sister Jane, playing in meadows strewn with spring flowers.

This was taken in Italy, where we spent the Easter holidays

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