Stripey gave birth to that little hoodlum and she's still grumpy about it.

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That part of his legacy is invisible but everywhere. He created a model of a different kind of leader and a different kind of man. Many children have been raised by better fathers because of him.

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My Mum was older than Sir Patrick, but grew up literally just round the corner (maybe 100yds away) from his family in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. She sometimes spoke of her childhood memories of his father’s violence towards his wife and children. Everyone knew.

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In Jean Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart was a lot of people’s model of what it might be to be a good man, a TV dad to men I know whose own dads didn’t give them much, or anything. He knew he was doing that because his own dad hadn’t been much of a man.

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Yes, he spoke about it frequently. Everyone knew what his father was doing to the family, almost no one did anything. I think it's very clear that he thought extremely hard throughout his life about what an actor could offer in creating models of masculinity that were not violent.

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