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When Harry Met Sandra sees Harry and Sandra Redknapp share their love story across fifty years of marriage. Delivered in chatty style, and covering everything from the couple’s love of a lifetime and the troubles and strife of family life, to a rollercoaster life in football, this is sure to appeal to a broad readership of romantics who relish honest memoirs that warm the heart.
The backstory of this book began in the I’m a Celebrity jungle, when legions of fans were captivated with Harry’s stories about Sandra and their life together. Peppered with plenty of cute moments, and lots of comic tales, too, this memoir relates how the couple first met in an Eastend pub, and Frank Lampard’s pivotal role in Harry securing a second chance with Sandra.
As readers are taken on a journey through family loss, football-prompted opportunities to live the highlife in America, life-threatening accidents, the spectre of tax evasion, and life with their grandchildren, their story is shot-through with love and loyalty.
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When Harry Met Sandra Synopsis
Harry Redknapp is a well known and highly respected face in the world of football. But it wasn’t until his stint in the I’m A Celebrity Jungle in 2018 that he was propelled into a whole new audience along with his loyal wife of 55 years, Sandra.
Viewers instantly fell in love with the couple after Harry regaled tales of their meeting in the Two Puddings pub in Barking, London in 1963. And there was even a new found love for the classic jam roly-poly as Harry fondly revealed it was the dessert she always cooks for him!
Now, Sandra is joining Harry in the spotlight as they share their entire love story for the very first time. From their low key wedding, to the births of their two sons Mark and Jamie, Harry and Sandra will reveal the highs and lows of their marriage in their first ever joint autobiography, When Harry Met Sandra.
Sandra will open up for the first time about the devastating death of her beloved sister, Pat, mum to former Chelsea star Frank, and the horror car crash that left Harry feared dead in Italy in 1990.
The couple will also candidly discuss the deep depression Harry felt as a footballer manager, his arrest for alleged tax evasion in 2006 and the moment Harry accidentally ran his wife over in his car, crushing her foot – with Sandra being his rock throughout.
In happier times, Harry and Sandra will recall their time spent living in America with the late, great Bobby Moore, as well as the births of their much loved grandchildren, including former footballer Jamie’s son, Raphael, who was born last November.
The couple will also look ahead to next year, which marks 60 years since they first met. When Harry Met Sandra is an incredible tale of love, loss and loyalty.
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About Harry Redknapp
Harry Redknapp was born in 1947 in Poplar, East London. After starting out as a trainee at Tottenham, he signed for West Ham and played for them between 1965 and 1972. He also played for Bournemouth and the Seattle Sounders before injury took him into management and coaching. He has managed at Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth (twice), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and currently QPR. He won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 and took Spurs into the Champions League in 2010. He is married to Sandra and has two sons, Mark and Jamie (who played for Liverpool, Tottenham and England). He is also uncle to Frank Lampard. He has two bulldogs called Rosie and Buster.
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