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{{Short description|English broadcaster, writer, politician, chef and alleged sex offender (1924–2009)}}
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{{Infobox person
|honorific_prefix   = [[Sir]]
|name         = Clement Freud
|image        = Sir-Clement-Raphael-Freud.jpg
|caption      = Freud in 1970
|birth_name   = Clemens Rafael Freud
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1924|4|24|df=y}}
|birth_place  = [[Berlin]], [[Weimar Republic|German Reich]]
|death_date   = {{death date and age|2009|4|15|1924|4|24|df=y}}
|death_place  = [[London]], England
|nationality  = British
|occupation   = {{hlist|Broadcaster|chef|MP|writer}}
|party        = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|spouse       = {{marriage|[[June Flewett]]|1950}}
|children     = 5, including [[Matthew Freud|Matthew]] and [[Emma Freud|Emma]]
|parents      = [[Ernst L. Freud]] (father)
|relatives    = [[Freud family]]
|module = {{infobox officeholder|embed=yes
|office1      = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />[[North East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|North East Cambridgeshire]]<br />{{nobold|[[Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)|Isle of Ely]] (1973–1983)}}
|term_start1  = 27 July 1973
|term_end1    = 18 May 1987
|predecessor1 = [[Harry Legge-Bourke|Henry Legge-Bourke]]
|successor1   = [[Malcolm Moss]]
| office2     = [[Rector of the University of St Andrews|Lord Rector of the <br/> University of St Andrews]]
| term_start2 = November 2002
| term_end2   = October 2005
| predecessor2  = [[Andrew Neil]]
| successor2    = [[Kevin Dunion]]
|rank              = Second lieutenant
|serviceyears      = 1942–1947
}}
}}
'''Sir Clement Raphael Freud''' (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009)<ref name="telegraph2">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5162533/-Clement-Freud-dies-at-84.html |title=Clement Freud dies at 84 |last=Swaine |first=Jon |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 April 2009 |location=London |date=16 April 2009}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="guardianobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary |title=Obituary: Clement Freud |last=Steel |first=David |date=16 April 2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=16 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030113444/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary |archive-date=30 October 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Freud Ego |last=Freud |first=Clement |year=2001 |publisher=BBC Worldwide |chapter=Chapter 1}}</ref> was a British [[Television presenter|broadcaster]], [[writer]], [[politician]] and [[chef]]. The son of [[Ernst L. Freud]] and grandson of [[Sigmund Freud]], Clement moved to the United Kingdom from [[Nazi Germany]] as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer. 

He became known to a wider audience as a television and radio personality. Freud was the longest serving panellist on the [[BBC Radio 4]] panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'', appearing in each of the first 143 episodes, and making subsequent regular appearances up until his death in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://just-a-minute.info/eps.html|title=JUST A MINUTE EPISODE LIST!}}</ref>

Freud was elected as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] in 1973, retaining his seat until 1987, when he received a [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]]. In 2016, seven years after his death, three women made public allegations of [[child sexual abuse]] and [[rape]] by Freud, which led to police investigations.<ref name="Evans" />

== Early life ==
Clement Freud was born '''Clemens Rafael Freud''' in [[Berlin]],<ref name="guardianobit"/><ref name="LG1939">{{London Gazette |issue=34708 |date=13 October 1939 |page=6866}}</ref><ref name="APObit">{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=126283328 |title=Sir Clement Freud |date=16 April 2009 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=16 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505121833/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=126283328 |archive-date=5 May 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><!--<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3847887.stm Obituary: Clement Freud], BBC News, 16 April 2009</ref> BBC is citing his birth at Vienna, Guardian and AP say Berlin. They are far more likely to print corrections if they are wrong, so go with Berlin for now. If they issue a correction, then we can go back to this BBC cite--> the son of Jewish parents [[Ernst L. Freud]] (an architect) and Lucie Freud (''[[given name|née]]'' Brasch). He was a grandson of psychoanalyst [[Sigmund Freud]] and the brother of artist [[Lucian Freud]]. His family fled to the United Kingdom from [[Nazi Germany]] and his forenames were [[Anglicization|anglicised]] to Clement Raphael.<ref name="Telegraph">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5163084/Sir-Clement-Freud.html "Sir Clement Freud"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202011103/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5163084/Sir-Clement-Freud.html |date=2 February 2018 }} ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), 16 April 2009</ref> He spent his later childhood in [[Hampstead]], where he attended the [[Hall School (Hampstead)|Hall School]], a [[Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|prep school]].<ref name="Ham&High">{{cite web|url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED16%20Apr%202009%2016%3A26%3A39%3A610|title=Obituary Hampstead and Highgate Express|access-date=23 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423000627/http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED16%20Apr%202009%2016%3A26%3A39%3A610|archive-date=23 April 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> He was then educated at two [[independent school]]s: at [[Dartington Hall|Dartington Hall School]], where he boarded, and at [[St Paul's School, London|St Paul's School]] in London.<ref name="Telegraph"/> He was naturalised as a British subject on 4 September 1939, three days after the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref name="LG1939" />

During the war, Freud joined the [[Royal Ulster Rifles]] and served in the ranks, acting as an aide to [[Bernard Montgomery|Field Marshal Montgomery]]. He later worked at the [[Nuremberg Trials]], and in 1947 was commissioned as an officer.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37983 |date=13 June 1947 |page=2669 |supp=y}}</ref> Freud married [[June Flewett]] (the inspiration for [[Lucy Pevensie]] in [[C. S. Lewis]]'s children's series ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'')<ref name="narnia11">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/11/narnia11.xml 'I was sure that children would not want to be told that this old lady was Lucy'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203195808/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2005%2F12%2F11%2Fnarnia11.xml |date=3 December 2007 }}, ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), 11 December 2005.</ref> in 1950, and the couple had five children. Flewett had taken the stage name Jill Raymond in 1944, and after her husband's [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]], was known as Lady Freud.<ref name="narnia11" /> Freud became an [[Anglican]] at the time of his marriage.<ref name="identity">{{cite book |title=Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology: Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine case |author=John Bunzl, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi |publisher=Springer |year=2002 |isbn=1-4020-7155-8 |page=34}}</ref>

== Early career ==
Freud was one of Britain's first [[celebrity chef]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clement Freud profile: The life and times of one of Britain's best connected men|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/15/clement-freud-profile-the-life-and-times-of-one-of-britains-best/amp/|access-date=2021-01-13|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> He worked at the [[Dorchester Hotel]] and went on to run his own restaurant in [[Sloane Square]] at a relatively young age. Freud appeared in a series of [[dog food]] television advertisements (at first Chunky Meat, later Chunky Minced Morsels) in which he co-starred with a [[bloodhound]] called Henry (played by a number of dogs) which shared his trademark "hangdog" expression. In 1964 he appeared in ''[[Strictly for the Birds]]''. In 1968 he wrote the children's book ''[[Grimble]]'', followed by a sequel, ''Grimble at Christmas'', six years later. Whilst running a [[nightclub]], Freud met a newspaper editor who gave him a job as a [[sports journalism|sports journalist]]. From there he became an award-winning food and drink writer,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5162533/Sir-Clement-Freud-dies-at-84.html |title=Telegraph Obituary: Sir Clement Freud dies at 84 |date=16 April 2009 |access-date=18 April 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |first=Jon |last=Swaine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419105913/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5162533/Sir-Clement-Freud-dies-at-84.html |archive-date=19 April 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> writing columns for many publications.

== Political career ==
Freud stood in the [[1973 Isle of Ely by-election]], becoming the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for that constituency (later [[North East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|North East Cambridgeshire]]) from 1973 to 1987. In 1983, to support employment in his constituency, he assisted the management buy-out of a concrete pipe manufacturer in [[March, Cambridgeshire|March]], [[Cambridgeshire]], led by [[Captain Tom Moore|Tom Moore]], and became an investor in the resulting March Concrete Ltd.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Sebastian |last2=Berry |first2=Dean F. |title=Cultural, Structural and Strategic Change in Management Buyouts |chapter=The March Concrete Story |date=1991 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan Limited |location=London |isbn=978-1-349-21561-4 |pages=135–136 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-21559-1_6 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-349-21559-1_6 |access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref> His departure from [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] was marked by the award of a knighthood.

In his column in the ''[[Racing Post]]'' of 23 August 2006, Freud wrote about his election to Parliament in a by-election: "Politically, I was an anti-[[Conservative Party (United Kingdom)|Conservative]] unable to join a [[Labour Party (United Kingdom)|Labour party]] hell-bent on nationalising everything that moved, so when a by-election occurred in [[East Anglia]], where I lived and live, I stood as a Liberal and was fortunate in getting in. [[Ladbrokes]] quoted me at 33–1 in this three-horse contest, so Ladbrokes paid for me to have rather more secretarial and research staff than other MPs, which helped to keep me in for five parliaments."

His autobiography, ''Freud Ego'', recalls his election win, and shortly after, when asked by his wife June, "Why aren't you looking happier?", he wrote, "It suddenly occurred to me that after nine years of fame I now had something solid about which to be famous... and cheered up no end." During his time as a Member of Parliament, he visited China with a delegation of MPs, including [[Winston Churchill (1940–2010)|Winston Churchill]], the grandson of the [[Winston Churchill|wartime prime minister]]. When Churchill was given the best room in the hotel, on account of his lineage, Freud (in a reference to his own famous forebear) declared it was the first time in his life that he had been "out-grandfathered".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6108143.ece|title=Freudian clips: The best of Clement Freud|last=Leitch|first=Luke|work=The Times|date=17 April 2009|access-date=17 April 2009|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615191032/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6108143.ece|archive-date=15 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Callaghan and freedom of information ==
In the last year of [[James Callaghan]]'s government there was a proposal to revive the one-year [[Lib-Lab pact]] which had lapsed in July 1978, to include introducing a [[freedom of information]] act, long proposed by the Liberals; however, Callaghan himself was opposed to this kind of legislation. Towards the end of the five-year term there was a [[1979 vote of no confidence against the government of James Callaghan|confidence vote]] in Callaghan's government, and Freud was expected to follow his party and vote with the [[Her Majesty's Opposition|Opposition]]. 

Due to by-election defeats Labour's Callaghan ran a [[minority government]] and sought support of members from opposing parties to support him that day; to that end Freud, in [[Liverpool]] at the time, received a phone call from [[10 Downing Street]] at 3pm asking him to miss his train back to London for the 10pm vote, in exchange for a "looser" version of his proposed freedom of information act being enacted. Freud declined the offer and voted as stated by his party, after the lapse of the Lib-Lab pact, for an immediate general election. Otherwise the government could have continued until October 1979.<ref>{{YouTube|id=U2wGQfqQBMM#t=7m|title=Interview with Freud}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=A YouTube video is not an ideal source|date=June 2016}}

== Radio, music and academia ==
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For many, Freud was best known as a panellist on the long-running [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] show ''[[Just a Minute]]''. Freud performed a small monologue for the [[Wings (band)|Wings]] 1973 album ''[[Band on the Run]]'' and appeared on the album's cover. He also made the occasional film appearance, with acting roles in movies such as ''[[The Mini-Affair]]'' (1968) and ''[[The Best House in London]]'' (1969). In 1974, he was elected [[Rector of the University of Dundee]] and served two three-year terms. A generation later, in 2002, he was elected [[Rector (academia)|Rector]] of the [[University of St Andrews]], beating feminist and academic [[Germaine Greer]] and local challenger Barry Joss, holding the position for one term.

== Family and hobbies ==
His son [[Matthew Freud]] founded the London public relations firm [[Freud Communications]] in 1985. Matthew Freud was formerly married to Caroline Hutton, who was the second wife of [[Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer|Earl Spencer]]; he then married media magnate [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s daughter [[Elisabeth Murdoch (businesswoman)|Elisabeth]].

Clement Freud's daughter [[Emma Freud]], a broadcaster, is the partner of [[Richard Curtis]], scriptwriter of ''[[Blackadder]]'' and ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''. His nieces (by his painter brother [[Lucian Freud|Lucian]]) include poet [[Annie Freud]], fashion designer [[Bella Freud]], and writer [[Esther Freud]]. His eldest brother, Stephen Freud, closely guarded his privacy, with the exception of a 2008 interview he gave to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2403606/I-am-the-forgotten-Freud-says-brother-of-Sir-Clement-Freud-and-Lucian-Freud.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120703025101/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2403606/I-am-the-forgotten-Freud-says-brother-of-Sir-Clement-Freud-and-Lucian-Freud.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 July 2012 |title=I am the forgotten Freud, says brother of Sir Clement Freud and Lucian Freud |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date= 18 July 2008 |access-date=15 April 2009 |first=Adam |last=Lusher |location=London}}</ref> Stephen died in 2015, at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11334445/Stephen-Freud-the-forgotten-brother-of-Lucian-and-Clement-dies-aged-93.html|title=Stephen Freud, the 'forgotten' brother of Lucian and Clement, dies aged 93|first=David|last=Barrett|date=23 July 2018|access-date=23 July 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724010828/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11334445/Stephen-Freud-the-forgotten-brother-of-Lucian-and-Clement-dies-aged-93.html|archive-date=24 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Freud died without resolving a feud with his brother Lucian, thought to have dated back 70 years, over which of them was the rightful winner of a boyhood race.<ref>{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |title=Clement Freud died without resolving feud with his brother Lucian |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5169755/Clement-Freud-died-without-resolving-feud-with-his-brother-Lucian.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=17 April 2009 |access-date=6 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420204631/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5169755/Clement-Freud-died-without-resolving-feud-with-his-brother-Lucian.html |archive-date=20 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> There have been claims that Freud fathered a child in the mid-1950s with the family's 17-year-old nanny.<ref>{{cite news|last=Evans|first=Martin|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/01/sir-clement-freud-fathered-child-with-nanny/|title=Sir Clement Freud 'fathered child' with nanny|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=1 August 2016|access-date=2 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803060227/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/01/sir-clement-freud-fathered-child-with-nanny/|archive-date=3 August 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Freud was a columnist for the ''[[Racing Post]]'' newspaper. Freud's enthusiasm for horse racing went as far as challenging [[Sir Hugh Fraser, 2nd Baronet|Sir Hugh Fraser]], then chairman of [[Harrods]], to a horse race at [[Haydock Park Racecourse|Haydock]] in 1972. Freud trained for three months and lost some five [[Stone (unit)|stone]] for the event. Although Fraser, a country gentleman, was seen as a much better prospect, the two made a bet for £1,000-a-side. Freud used the long odds to his advantage, however, and shrewdly placed a large [[side bet]] on himself. Freud won the race and made a great deal of money. His horse, Winter Fair, went on to win the Waterloo Hurdle at [[Aintree]] that year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/racing-post-columnist-sir-clement-freud-dies-at-84/178784/latest/ |title=Racing Post columnist Sir Clement Freud dies at 84 |work=[[Racing Post]] |date=16 April 2009 |first=Graham |last=Green |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005214439/http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/racing-post-columnist-sir-clement-freud-dies-at-84/178784/latest/ |archive-date=5 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Freud wrote articles reviewing facilities for spectators at racecourses in Britain, especially catering. This led him to receive the nickname "Sir Clement Food".<ref>[http://www.ajr.org.uk/journal/issue.Mar01/article.622 Association of Jewish Refugees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312052008/http://www.ajr.org.uk/journal/issue.Mar01/article.622 |date=12 March 2009 }}, 2001.</ref>

== Death and funeral ==
Freud died at his home on 15 April 2009, nine days before his 85th birthday.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Sir Clement Freud | date=16 April 2009 | access-date=30 April 2010 | first=David | last=Steel | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030113444/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary | archive-date=30 October 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref> His funeral service was held at [[St Bride's Church]] in [[Fleet Street]] and was attended by a host of personalities from the media and entertainment industry including [[Bono]], [[Richard Curtis]], [[Stephen Fry]], [[Paul Merton]], [[Debbie McGee]] and [[Nicholas Parsons]], as well as several representatives from [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Westminster]], such as then-[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Gordon Brown]], then-Shadow Chancellor [[George Osborne]] and former Liberal party leader [[David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood|Lord Steel]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6164313.ece | work=[[The Times]] | location=London | title=Sir Clement Freuds funeral rings fittingly with jokes and laughter | first=Valentine | last=Low | date=25 April 2009 | access-date=30 April 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He was survived by his wife of 59 years, Jill Freud, his five children, his 17 grandchildren and his two elder brothers, Stephen and [[Lucian Freud|Lucian]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8001383.stm|title=Writer Clement Freud dies aged 84|date=16 April 2009|access-date=16 April 2009|publisher=[[BBC News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416222734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8001383.stm|archive-date=16 April 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Child sexual abuse allegations==
On 15 June 2016, allegations were made in an [[ITV (network)|ITV]] documentary, ''Exposure: Abused and Betrayed – A Life Sentence'',  that <!-- Not knighted at the time of the incidents. -->Freud had engaged in [[child sexual abuse]] between the 1940s and the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-14/late-politician-sir-clement-freud-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse/|title=ITV investigation: Politician Sir Clement Freud accused of child sexual abuse|publisher=ITV|date=15 June 2016|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615121716/http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-14/late-politician-sir-clement-freud-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse/|archive-date=15 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36535263|title=Sir Clement Freud accused of abusing two girls|publisher=BBC News|date=15 June 2016|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615020836/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36535263|archive-date=15 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Two women, who did not know each other, spoke publicly for the first time to claim Freud had preyed upon them when they were still children and into young adulthood.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Neill|first=Sean|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/clement-freud-abused-girl-aged-10-ljcff5wf9|title=Clement Freud 'abused girl aged 10'|work=The Times|location=London|date=15 June 2016|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614233549/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/clement-freud-abused-girl-aged-10-ljcff5wf9|archive-date=14 June 2016|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Sylvia Woosley contacted the [[ITV News]] team – the same team that exposed [[Jimmy Savile]] – and told them she had been abused for many years by Freud, from the age of 10 in the 1950s to when she left his home aged 19. The second woman, who remained anonymous, said that Freud had groomed her from the age of 11 in 1971, abused her at 14, and violently [[rape]]d her at 18, by which time Freud had become a Liberal MP.<ref name="Evans">{{cite news|last1=Evans|first1=Martin|last2=Rayner|first2=Gordon|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/|title=Sir Clement Freud exposed as a paedophile as police urged to probe Madeleine McCann links|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=14 June 2016|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615113116/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/|archive-date=15 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Quinn">{{cite news |last=Quinn |first=Ben |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/14/sir-clement-freud-accused-of-abusing-two-girls-between-the-late-1940s-and-70s |title=Sir Clement Freud accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 70s |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=14 June 2016 |access-date=15 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615121957/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/14/sir-clement-freud-accused-of-abusing-two-girls-between-the-late-1940s-and-70s |archive-date=15 June 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> On the day of the documentary broadcast, Freud's widow, Jill Freud, issued an apology to both women. She accepted the claims and issued a statement of sympathy for his victims, saying: "I sincerely hope they will now have some peace."<ref name="Evans" /><ref name="Quinn" />

A third woman, Vicky Hayes, alleged that she was assaulted and raped by Freud when she was aged 17. Hayes said Freud had no right to his reputation as a "pillar of society" and ought to be posthumously stripped of his knighthood.<ref name="Teleg-evidence">{{cite news|last=Evans|first=Martin|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/15/clement-freud-accused-of-raping-another-teenage-girl-as-evidence|title=Clement Freud accused of raping another teenage girl as evidence mounts that he was a predatory paedophile|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=15 June 2016|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616152119/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/15/clement-freud-accused-of-raping-another-teenage-girl-as-evidence/|archive-date=16 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> It also emerged that [[Operation Yewtree]] had been passed Freud's name in 2012 when two alleged victims made accusations to the [[National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children]] (NSPCC).<ref>{{cite news|last=Laville|first=Sandra|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/15/third-woman-alleges-exually-assaulted-sir-clement-freud|title=Third woman alleges she was sexually assaulted by Sir Clement Freud|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=15 June 2016|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615191803/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/15/third-woman-alleges-exually-assaulted-sir-clement-freud|archive-date=15 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> 

Allegations were also made of predatory behaviour towards female students during Freud's time as [[Rector of the University of Dundee]] in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/190813/freud-preyed-female-students-dundee-university-rector/|title=Sir Clement Freud "preyed on female students" while Dundee University rector|work=[[The Courier (Dundee)|The Courier]]|place=Dundee|date=15 June 2016|access-date=20 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616215350/https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/190813/freud-preyed-female-students-dundee-university-rector/|archive-date=16 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Craig Murray]], a former British ambassador, who was a student at Dundee University in the late 1970s, described an incident when Freud asked the president of the students' union to [[pimp]] for him and select a woman to entertain him.<ref name="Teleg-evidence" />

== Bibliography ==
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* 1968 – ''[[Grimble]]'' – illustrated by [[Quentin Blake]]
* 1973 – ''Grimble at Christmas'' – illustrated by Quentin Blake
* 1978 – ''Freud on Food''
* 1980 – ''Clicking Vicky''
* 1981 – ''The Book of Hangovers'' – 1982 paperback version illustrated by [[Bill Tidy]]
* 1983 – ''Below the Belt''
* 1988 – ''No one Else Has Complained''
* 1989 – ''The Gourmet's Tour of Great Britain and Ireland''
* 2001 – ''Freud Ego'' – an autobiography. (The title is a pun on 'fried egg', ''ego'' being a Latin word used by his psychoanalyst grandfather.)
* 2009 – ''Freud on Course – The Racing Lives of Clement Freud''
{{div col end}}

== See also ==
* [[Freud family]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* Crewe, Daniel. "One of Nature’s Liberals: the career of Sir Clement Freud, artist, journalist, chef, bon-viveur – and Liberal MP, 1973–87" in ''[[Liberal Democrat History Group|Journal of Liberal History]]'', Issue 43, Summer 2004.

== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-clement-freud | Clement Freud }}
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6104345.ece Video: Sir Clement Freud dies aged 84 – ''Times'' Online]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/arts/17freud.html?hpw ''New York Times'' obituary]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/16/sir-clement-freud-dies Sir Clement Freud dies aged 84 – guardian.co.uk]
* [http://www.legacy.com/TimesOnline-UK/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonID=126283328 AP Obituary] in ''[[The Times]]''
* [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2009/apr/16/1?picture=346031420 Gallery of pictures at guardian.co.uk]
* {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/rams/jam_clement.ram |title=Clement Freud talking about ''Just a Minute'' (RealPlayer video)|publisher=BBC}}
* {{IMDb name|0294429}}

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