Elsie Bambridge

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Elsie Bambridge (née Kipling; 2 February 1896 – 24 May 1976) was the second daughter of British writer Rudyard Kipling. She was the only one of the Kiplings' three children to survive beyond early adulthood. On 22 October 1924, Elsie Kipling married George Bambridge and in 1938 they bought Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire's largest stately home. When her father died in 1936, she became the executor of his estate, which included all his papers and the copyright on all his works. Her obituary in The Times stated she had two missions in life, "to maintain the traditions of her husband Captain George Bambridge and her father Rudyard Kipling". She was in the news in the U.K. and America in 1958 when she protected her father’s integrity as his executor by prohibiting a recording by Frank Sinatra of the song “On the Road to Mandalay”, based on her father’s poem “Mandalay”, from being issued in the United Kingdom. She disapproved of the many liberties Sinatra took with the text. In the U. K. when...

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