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Sir Harold and Lady Stockton, of Seagrave Manor, Seagrave, Leics., had one much-loved daughter, Araminta Claudia. Araminta was a beautiful young woman, tall, slim and regal, and the contrast between her long honey-blond hair and her treacle-dark flashing eyes never failed to startle those who met her for the first time. In her second year at Imperial College, London, she met Juan Carlos Corradera, from Argentina. He was a skilled seducer, extremely rich, athletic and breathtakingly handsome, but he had no desire to seduce Araminta. For him it was all or nothing. Within a week of their first meeting, the couple were plunged headlong into love, and within six months they were married. And that is where I come in.

My name is Brian Cazenove, I am in my late twenties, and I have a photographic studio in Leicester. Before the war I worked Saturdays and holidays in my uncle's photographic shop on Humberstone Gate, but I really learned my trade in wartime, as a war photographer attached to the Seventh Armoured Division and the Eighth Army.

I had the privilege of serving for a short time under General O'Connor, the finest general in the British Army in the opinion of his troops. I kept a quasi-official photographic record of the war in North Africa, Italy and Southern France. Many of my photosets appeared in the Soldier, and some in Picture Post and in the well-known series of HMSO illustrated books. My work is well known, but my name much less so.

I had the great good fortune to be in Naples when it was liberated. Naples in the early spring of 1944 was a city where everything was for sale, and the price of everything was negotiable. The city was thronged with beautiful young women and girls who were delighted to pose nude for photographs for a small fee. Sweeten the deal with a pack of Marlborough cigarettes or two tins of corned beef, they would not only pose, but also offer intimate personal services. With these unlimited opportunities, I quickly learned that beauty alone was not enough, and there had to be some special quality in a girl to make her sexually desirable.

In a three-week r