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While at university, Holt met Zara Kate Dickins, and they soon became lovers.

However, the couple split up in 1934 and Zara travelled overseas.

In London she met Captain James Fell, a British Army officer, and they married in March 1935.

Her first son Nicholas was born in 1937, followed by twin boys Sam and Andrew, born in 1939.

By this time, however, she had renewed her relationship with Holt and her marriage to Fell ended soon after the twins ' birth.

Tom Frame's biography reveals that Holt was the twins ' biological father.

Zara and Fell subsequently divorced, she married Holt in 1946 and he adopted the three boys.

Although they remained married until Holt's death in 1967, Zara's memoirs confirmed longstanding rumours that Holt had a number of extramarital affairs.