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13 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 4 JULY 2021 guests thanks to the Dominion Services and Students Hospi- tality Scheme: during Easter 1940, it was at Great Milton, where his hosts, a septuage- narian squire and his wife, no children of their own, invited a pretty girl to keep him compa- ny. She arrived riding through the snow on a horse. 'She was a lively lass... her light move- ments competing in grace with those of her horse.' But Pame- la would not 'stifle the voice of reason' and allow Dom to cross the border 'from innocent fon- dling to hard sex'. But his next visit that same Easter was to the home of Moy- ra Bentinck at Cheltenham – she was the third of four sib- lings (Zeno – whom everyone called Zak, Primrose, Gwynella – or Toots, and Moyra – Babs). She was the daughter of Lt.Col. Reginald Bentinck, of Dutch and British noble lineage relat- ed via the Cavendish-Bentinck line to Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother. Moyra was then 23, 11 months younger than him. The ring of her voice attracted him. "Quickly after- wards, as he never forgot, it seems to have been, in the fol- lowing order, the blonde hair, then the 'shapely bust', next the 'smooth well-shaped face that needed no make-up to enhance its beauty', and finally the 'inch and a half taller than me [sic].'" There was no love-at-first-sight crush on Moyra's part – who only noticed his tawdry over- coat (shocking sky-blue and as ugly as sin). Dom and Moyra however hit it off. 'The erotic impulse to undress her… grab her appeal- ing flesh into my aching arms, and entwine my body with hers was stronger than I had ever known since leaving home.' "Though Dom began to trav- el to Cheltenham whenever he could, even on some evenings during the week, sometimes staying overnight, this did not prevent him from flirting with one of the Harrises' in-laws" – 'I would be dishonest if I gave the impression that clerical sanctions or pressure of work deprived me from savouring the prohibited thrill of a Saturday afternoon sex session' Primetime: Dom Mintoff smiles as he lands in Malta after a government trip. Businessman Albert Mizzi is right behind him