Victoria Tawadros obituary

Our mother, Victoria Tawadros, who has died aged 71, followed what the poet Robert Frost described as a road “less travelled”. Politics and conflict formed a backdrop to her extraordinary life, which was spent between Britain and Egypt. She was born Victoria Wassef in Cairo, the eldest child of Youssef and Salma. Her grandfather, a journalist, had wrapped her mother in an Egyptian flag in a political demonstration against British occupation. She grew up in Heliopolis, an elegant suburb of Cairo, and was educated at the English school in the city. When her father relocated to Britain to become the Egyptian assistant air attache, she moved to a boarding school in Middlesex. It was a sharp contrast to the easy-going lifestyle she had enjoyed in

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