Originally Posted by
Reverserbucket
I've often found the comment
British-born but raised in Canada
an odd one; what relevance does this have to anything she claims to have done or is it simply to add a little more embellishment to the story? Not suggesting it's untrue however this is a classic narcissistic trait that adds nothing but to suggest that the subject is perhaps more interesting than first appears.
I believe it is to do with the "mixed colonial background" Ms Curtis-Taylor talks about having during the intro to her RAeS Sydney Branch talk (available on YouTube, listen between 0:30 and 0:42).
In the intro to the Museum of Flight talk (also available on YouTube) she says "I love the old world, I love the old colonial world".
I have noticed this theme in a number of interviews and take it to be a yearning for a bygone era.