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Hubbard as genial family man. From the left Suzette (4), his wife Mary Sue, Quentin (5),
Arthur (1) and Diana (7). All were to suffer in various ways. (Photo Source Ltd)
Hubbard returned to Washington for Christmas, but in the New Year he began making plans to
move back to London with his family. Pam and Ray Kemp wrote to say that they were moving and
that their house in North London, on the Finchley Road in Golders Green, would be available if Ron
was looking for somewhere to live. The Hubbards - Ron, Mary Sue, Diana, aged six, Quentin, five,
Suzette, four and Arthur, eight months - arrived in London at the end of February and agreed to rent
the Kemps' house in Golders Green.
'My daughter Suzanne was born on Ron's birthday,' said Pam Kemp. 'Ron came over with a
beautiful, bright orange, angora shawl for me. He said everyone brings presents for the baby but
everyone forgets it is the mother that has been doing all the work so he was bringing a present for
the mother. That was typical of him.
'It was also typical of him that he stiffed us for the rent and he stiffed the greengrocer. Before they
moved in, the greengrocer on the other side of the road asked us if he could trust the new tenants
and we said "Of course." Ron proceeded to run up a huge bill which he never paid. And he never
paid us any rent. We asked him dozens of times for the money. He told us to ask Mary Sue and she
always said they didn't have any money.
'Then one day Ron came over on his motorcycle, very excited and pleased with himself. He said,
"Guess what I've done?"'[10]
The Kemps were dumbfounded by their friend's news. He announced that he had bought the