Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

slimming namesakes, that attracted her rather than
loudly spat polemics against immigration and
integration.
Relationships started during wartime are often
more passionate than those begun during peace
and prosperity. Peggy, with her high forehead,
elegant nose, pale skin and dark, humorous eyes,
possessed a certain unconventional, very English
beauty. Although willful and independent, she was
not immune to the rush of untethered emotion that
seemed to wash over her generation with the
declaration of war. While working at the hotel, she
began a relationship with an employee, a handsome
Jewish Frenchman named Wolf Rosemberg (who
called himself Jack). He worked as a porter in the
bar. His father was a well-off fur dealer in Paris.
Their affair began in secret in the spring of 1937.
She believed that she had met the love of her life.
Soon afterward, she learned that she was pregnant.
Rosemberg proposed. Their first and only child,
Terence Guy Adair Burns, was born in the local
Pembury Hospital on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day
(hence his middle name). Adair was a family name.
Everyone called the baby Terry.
Jack and Peggy would never marry, and Terry
would never really know his biological father. Early in
1938, the Nazis began annexing Eastern Europe
and eventually invaded France. Jack returned to his
family and joined up with the Resistance. He
reappeared in London shortly before bombs began
falling on Great Britain in ’39. Jack attempted to