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== Early life == Clement Freud was born '''Clemens Rafael Freud''' in [[Berlin]],<ref name="guardianobit"/><ref name="LG1939">{{London Gazette |issue=34708 |date=13 October 1939 |page=6866}}</ref><ref name="APObit">{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=126283328 |title=Sir Clement Freud |date=16 April 2009 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=16 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505121833/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=126283328 |archive-date=5 May 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><!--<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3847887.stm Obituary: Clement Freud], BBC News, 16 April 2009</ref> BBC is citing his birth at Vienna, Guardian and AP say Berlin. They are far more likely to print corrections if they are wrong, so go with Berlin for now. If they issue a correction, then we can go back to this BBC cite--> the son of Jewish parents [[Ernst L. Freud]] (an architect) and Lucie Freud (''[[given name|nΓ©e]]'' Brasch). He was a grandson of psychoanalyst [[Sigmund Freud]] and the brother of artist [[Lucian Freud]]. His family fled to the United Kingdom from [[Nazi Germany]] and his forenames were [[Anglicization|anglicised]] to Clement Raphael.<ref name="Telegraph">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5163084/Sir-Clement-Freud.html "Sir Clement Freud"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202011103/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5163084/Sir-Clement-Freud.html |date=2 February 2018 }} ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), 16 April 2009</ref> He spent his later childhood in [[Hampstead]], where he attended the [[Hall School (Hampstead)|Hall School]], a [[Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|prep school]].<ref name="Ham&High">{{cite web|url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED16%20Apr%202009%2016%3A26%3A39%3A610|title=Obituary Hampstead and Highgate Express|access-date=23 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423000627/http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED16%20Apr%202009%2016%3A26%3A39%3A610|archive-date=23 April 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> He was then educated at two [[independent school]]s: at [[Dartington Hall|Dartington Hall School]], where he boarded, and at [[St Paul's School, London|St Paul's School]] in London.<ref name="Telegraph"/> He was naturalised as a British subject on 4 September 1939, one day after the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref name="LG1939" /> During the war, Freud joined the [[Royal Ulster Rifles]] and served in the ranks, acting as an aide to [[Bernard Montgomery|Field Marshal Montgomery]]. He later worked at the [[Nuremberg Trials]], and in 1947 was commissioned as an officer.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37983 |date=13 June 1947 |page=2669 |supp=y}}</ref> Freud married [[June Flewett]] (the inspiration for [[Lucy Pevensie]] in [[C. S. Lewis]]'s children's series ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'')<ref name="narnia11">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/11/narnia11.xml 'I was sure that children would not want to be told that this old lady was Lucy'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203195808/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2005%2F12%2F11%2Fnarnia11.xml |date=3 December 2007 }}, ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), 11 December 2005.</ref> in 1950, and the couple had five children. Flewett had taken the stage name Jill Raymond in 1944, and after her husband's [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]], was known as Lady Freud.<ref name="narnia11" /> Freud became an [[Anglican]] at the time of his marriage.<ref name="identity">{{cite book |title=Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology: Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine case |author=John Bunzl, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi |publisher=Springer |year=2002 |isbn=1-4020-7155-8 |page=34}}</ref>
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