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In January 1912, Baden-Powell met the woman who would be his future wife, [[Olave Baden-Powell|Olave St Clair Soames]] on the ocean liner Arcadian heading for New York to start one of his Scouting World Tours. She was a young woman of 23, while he was 55, a not uncommon age difference in that time, and they shared the same birthday. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation due to Baden-Powell's fame. To avoid press intrusion, they married in secret on October 30, 1912. The Scouts of England each donated a penny to buy Baden-Powell a wedding gift, a car (note that this is not the Rolls-Royce they were presented with in 1929). There is a monument to their marriage inside St Mary's Church, Brownsea Island. | In January 1912, Baden-Powell met the woman who would be his future wife, [[Olave Baden-Powell|Olave St Clair Soames]] on the ocean liner Arcadian heading for New York to start one of his Scouting World Tours. She was a young woman of 23, while he was 55, a not uncommon age difference in that time, and they shared the same birthday. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation due to Baden-Powell's fame. To avoid press intrusion, they married in secret on October 30, 1912. The Scouts of England each donated a penny to buy Baden-Powell a wedding gift, a car (note that this is not the Rolls-Royce they were presented with in 1929). There is a monument to their marriage inside St Mary's Church, Brownsea Island. | ||
Baden-Powell and Olave lived in Pax Hill near Bentley, Hampshire from about 1919 until 1939. The house was a gift of her father. Directly after he had married, Baden-Powell had begun to have problems with his health, suffering bouts of illness. He complained of persistent headaches, which were considered by his doctor to be of | Baden-Powell and Olave lived in Pax Hill near Bentley, Hampshire from about 1919 until 1939. The house was a gift of her father. Directly after he had married, Baden-Powell had begun to have problems with his health, suffering bouts of illness. He complained of persistent headaches, which were considered by his doctor to be of psychosomatic origin and treated with dream analysis.<ref name="jeal"/> The headaches subsided upon his moving into a makeshift bedroom set up on his balcony. In 1934, his prostate was removed. | ||
In 1939, he moved to a cottage he had commissioned in Kenya, a country he had previously visited to recuperate. His house, which he named ''Paxtu'', was located near the famed Treetops Hotel in Nyeri, owned by Eric Sherbrooke Walker, Baden-Powell's first private secretary and one of the first Scout inspectors. The cottage is now a Scouting Museum. | In 1939, he moved to a cottage he had commissioned in Kenya, a country he had previously visited to recuperate. His house, which he named ''Paxtu'', was located near the famed Treetops Hotel in Nyeri, owned by Eric Sherbrooke Walker, Baden-Powell's first private secretary and one of the first Scout inspectors. The cottage is now a Scouting Museum. | ||
