... is the property of Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of Lord and Lady Marchmain (owners of Brideshead), who is the closest friend of Charles Ryder, the narrator and protagonist of Brideshead Revisited. Aloysius is said to have been inspired by Archibald Ormsby–Gore, a teddy bear owned by John Betjeman, who was a friend of Evelyn Waugh's at Oxford.
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