Who Was Edith Pretty’s Son? Robert Pretty was born when Edith was 47 years old; he was the only child of Edith and Frank Pretty. As shown in the film, Robert was extremely taken up with the excavation and often played in and around the site. He would also dig around the area with a toy spade. His second daughter, Edith, was born that year and lived at Vale Royal with her father until his 1925 death in South Africa. 'My heart is bursting': Kathie Lee Gifford, 68, becomes a grandmother for the first time as her son Cody and wife Erika welcome a baby boy named for his late grandfather Frank Hun havde en ældre søster, Elizabeth. Edith Grandmaison. Is Netflix's 'The Dig' a true story and was Edith Pretty a real person? Maynard recommended local archaeologist Basil Brown (played by Ralph Fiennes in The Dig movie) to find out what, if anything, lay beneath the strange mounds on Pretty's land. Alice was born in June 1870, in Kensington, London, England. While in Cuddington the family went on a world tour travelling to Egypt, Greece, Austria-Hungary, British India and the USA. Sobre cómo fue dar vida a esta extrordinaria mujer, la actriz Carey Mulligan ha dicho lo siguiente: "Nunca antes había oído ese nombre. Pretty had been a Major in the Suffolk Regiment's 4th (Territorial) Battalion and had been wounded twice during … When Euclid (real name Lydian) ventures onto the Random Queries and Idle Speculation bulletin board she meets … Log In. Most of her estate of £400,000 was placed in a trust for her son, Robert, who was now cared for by his … Discovery