Later Life
Beresford and her family moved to the island of Alderney in the English Channel in the mid-1970s. She and husband Robertson divorced in 1984. As well as writing 20 Wombles books, Beresford wrote a variety of adventure and mystery books for children, many based on the small island of Alderney, where she lived in a 300-year-old cottage in St Anne’s. Beresford was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services to children's literature in the 1998 New Year Honours.
Beresford died at 10:30 on 24 December 2010 in the Mignot Memorial Hospital on Alderney. According to her son, Marcus Robertson, the cause of death was heart failure.
American actor James Newman is her great-nephew.
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