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=== Fictional residents === * [[P.G. Wodehouse]]'s character [[Bertie Wooster]] lives near Berkeley Square in a Berkeley St. flat along with his [[valet]] [[Jeeves]], not far from the [[Drones Club]]. * [[Harry Flashman]], the vicious bully of [[Tom Brown's School Days]] and anti-hero of the ''[[Flashman Papers]]'', had a marital home here with his wife Elspeth. * Cathy Lane, Patty Lane's "identical cousin", is said to have lived here in the theme song to ''[[The Patty Duke Show]]''. * [[50 Berkeley Square]] is allegedly haunted.<ref name=nn/> * "Tomlinson", the title character of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s 1891 satirical poem, "gave up the ghost at his house in Berkeley Square". * Peter Standish, a character from the play ''[[Berkeley Square (play)|Berkeley Square]]'' written by [[John L. Balderston|John Balderston]], about a Yankee who lives in a house on the square and is transported back to the 18th century. The play was produced as a [[Berkeley Square (1933 film)|movie]] in 1933, with [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]], and in [[I'll Never Forget You (film)|1951]], and on television in 1959. * In the 1949 comedy film ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]'', Lady Agatha D'Ascogne is made to fall to her death in Berkeley Square to accommodate a clever poetic parody. * Lady Emily Ashton, created by author [[Tasha Alexander]], lives primarily in her Berkeley Square residence during the Victorian period. * The Marquis of Alverstoke, the main male character from the novel ''[[Frederica (novel)|Frederica]]'' by [[Georgette Heyer]]. *The 1998 television miniseries ''[[Berkeley Square (TV series)|Berkeley Square]]'' focussed on three wealthy [[Edwardian]] families and their staff living in the square. *One of [[Peter Cheyney|Peter Cheyney's]] main characters, [[private detective]] [[Slim Callaghan]], had his office on Berkeley Square.
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