Christopher Robin Milne was the only child of author A.A. Milne and was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his fathers Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems. As a child, he enjoyed the novelty of being famous, but things changed when he turned around eight or nine and was sent away to boarding school, where he was relentlessly bullied. Christopher Robin resented being associated with the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and the fame they brought him. He had a love-hate relationship with his fictional namesake that continued into adulthood. Christopher Robin saw his mother just once in the remaining 15 years of her life, after his father died in 1956. He died on April 20, 1996, at the age of 75, after a long battle with Myasthenia gravis.