| FELICITY DAHL (Executive Producer) was born in Llandaff, Wales in 1938 and had a Catholic education, attending various schools throughout her childhood. When she was nineteen, she worked in the fashion department of Harper's Bazaar and a couple of years later she joined Scenery Limited as a freelance fashion stylist for television commercials.
Later, she attended a Carving and Gilding course at the City and Guilds London Art School and in 1981 she and others started their own business, Carvers and Gilders. Felicity, known as Liccy (pronounced Lissy), had three daughters, Neisha, Charlotte and Lorina (deceased 1990), during a previous marriage and is now grandmother to four grandsons, Billy, Oscar, Max and Sam, and one granddaughter, Edie. In 1983 Felicity married Roald Dahl. She still lives at Gipsy House, the family home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. She is the chairman of Dahl & Dahl Limited, the company which manages the Roald Dahl literary estate. After Roald's death in 1990, Felicity established the Roald Dahl Foundation, of which she is Chairman. The Roald Dahl Foundation is a United Kingdom-based grant-giving charity and its aim is to help children in the areas of literacy, neurology and haematology. Felicity has also commissioned a library of music based on her late husband's works with the hope that an introduction to classical music will bring children into the concert hall in the same way that his books have brought them into the world of literature. All proceeds raised from the performance and commercial exploitation of these pieces go to the Roald Dahl Foundation. She wrote The Roald Dahl Cookbook in conjunction with Roald and since his death has produced two cookbooks for children: Revolting Recipes and Even More Revolting Recipes. More recently she has been using her energy to set up the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, the village in Buckinghamshire where Roald Dahl lived and worked for forty years. The museum opened in June 2005. |
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