Maxwells mother
SIDELIGHTS: Elisabeth Maxwell-Meynard is a well-respected scholar who specializes in the history of the Holocaust, but she is even better known as the widow of British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell. When Robert Maxwell died under mysterious circumstances in 1991, leaving his publishing empire in chaos, Maxwell-Meynard decided to tell the story of the couple's life together and give her own portrayal of the controversial man she had married. The result, A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell, was published in 1994.
She writes both of Robert Maxwell's love for their children, and his verbal abuse of his sons before guests. She discusses her knowledge of her husband's adultery, and confesses that when, during the last twenty years of their forty-six-year marriage, their relationship became intolerable, she and Maxwell began to lead separate lives. She also relates what she knows and believes about the circumstances of her husband's death; specifically, that he drowned in the ocean after falling from the deck of his yacht.
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