June Beatrice Freud, Lady Freud (néeFlewett; born 22 June 1927) is a British actress and theatre director. She is also known by her stage-name Jill Raymond, and was usually known as Jill Freud after her marriage to Clement Freud.
She and her two sisters were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz. In the summer of 1943, at the age of 16, she moved in with the Lewises at their home The Kilns, in Risinghurst, Oxford, as a housekeeper. Her favourite writer was C. S. Lewis and initially she had no idea she was living in a house with the same man. She developed what she later called a "tremendous crush" on Lewis. She was highly regarded in the household and Lewis in a letter to Flewett's mother, Winifred, on 4 January 1945, said: "I have never really met anything like her unselfishness and patience and kindness and shall feel deeply in her debt as long as I live."[2]
Career
Flewett was an aspiring actress. After two years, she left the Lewises to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), her fees being paid by Lewis. Following her graduation, she embarked upon a successful career in the West End under the stage name Jill Raymond. She married Clement Freud in 1950 and performed in occasional radio plays. In the 1970s, when her husband became a LiberalMP for the Isle of Ely, she helped him canvass.
She has five children (one adopted), including Emma Freud[4] and Matthew Freud, and 17 grandchildren. Lady Freud is Vice President of TACT, the Actors' Children's Trust.[5]
