Winnie-the-Pooh

Me ha gustado el artículo que el NYTimes ha dedicado a la visita de la reina Camilla a la Biblioteca Pública de NY y ha llevado como regalo "a bespoke replica of Roo produced by Merrythought, Britain’s oldest surviving teddy bear manufacturer."

Queen Camilla Unites Winnie-the-Pooh With a Long-Lost Friend

Resulta que hay una Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures

La reina tiene una literary charity: https://thequeensreadingroom.co.uk/

invoked the poster child of problematic national treasure acquisitions
The response from New York back then: No way, José.
The Parthenon Sculptures, or Elgin Marbles, are a collection of ancient Greek masterpieces housed in the British Museum, removed by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, from the Athens Acropolis between 1801 and 1812. They include 17 figures, 15 metopes, and 75 meters of the frieze, representing over half of the surviving Parthenon decoration

the bear’s home was the fictional, but also Very English, Hundred Acre Wood. (It was inspired by Five Hundred Acre Wood, a portion of Ashdown Forest, near Milne’s country home in East Sussex.)

It all began more than 100 years ago, when Milne purchased that stuffed teddy bear at Harrods as a present for his 1-year-old son.

Christopher Robin named him Edward Bear, but then changed the name, basing it on two other animals: Winnipeg (“Winnie,” for short), a Canadian bear who ended up in the London Zoo during World War I; and Pooh, a swan who appears in Milne’s book “When We Were Very Young.”

For decades, the original animals remained with A.A. Milne rather than Christopher Robin, who felt conflicted about how the books had affected his life even though he grew up to become a bookstore owner. (“My name was famous all over the world but it made me miserable to be pointed out as the son of my father,” he once said.) On a visit with Milne père in 1947, Elliott Macrae, the president of E.P. Dutton, the books’ American publisher, spotted Pooh and his gang languishing in the corner of Milne’s living room — everyone present and accounted for, except for the lost Roo.
Dutton itself was sold in 1985. Two years later, the publishing house’s former owner, John Dyson, who was then the chairman of the New York State Power Authority, helped to arrange their donation to the New York Public Library.