"That was his childhood, being pushed from pillar to post. By the age of 14, Green had become the highest-earning child star in Britain and leader of the Hughie Green Gang Show - a touring company made up entirely of children. "I had to let go of certain things - but more than anything I came to understand my father and why he had caused such hurt to so many people who loved him."
He still recalls the time, aged eight, when his father stuck a plastic doll in his pocket and taunted him for being "a queer". "That unholy place was his second dressing room. I have no happy memories of The Violet at all. "My father was simply a cash cow," says Christopher, who disdainfully refers to his paternal grandmother as 'The Violet'. "She was not in a mental state to be able to establish a future with my sister and myself.
By the age of 14, Green had become the highest-earning child star in Britain and leader of the Hughie Green Gang Show - a touring company made up entirely of children.
"He was brilliant but his emotions were totally truncated.
"My father showed me great sensitivity. If Green is still remembered as a 'monster' by many, his 60-year-old son appears finally to have come to terms with the father who so cruelly terrorised him as a child. I didn't have too much emotion about it all.
• Hughie Green: Most Sincerely will be shown on BBC4 in April Publishers wishing to reproduce photographs on this page should phone 44 (0) 207 931 2921 or email syndication@telegraph.co.uk UK News "Violet was not known for her discretion," says Christopher. On screen, Hughie was the genial host. In that era, there was a social stigma attached to leaving one's husband, especially if you had children. Motherhood threatened all that. I've tied up all of the loose ends. In the end, though, Green's affairs drove Christopher's mother away. He was married to Claire Wilson. He turned his findings into a book, The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green And Paula Yates, which was published in 2003. The poor girl was preoccupied with the miseries of her immediate past." He was empathising with himself. Green met Christopher's mother, a Montreal society beauty named Claire Wilson, on a cruise liner in the mid-1930s when they were both still teenagers. According to Christopher, Green's mother, Violet, had never wanted him. What they did to him was wicked.
The whole of his early life was curtailed. "I was at boarding school in Canada when they separated. "My father had a lifelong phobia about poultry, which stemmed from the night he was sick after eating chicken sandwiches and walked in on The Violet with her lover."
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He'd ordered chicken sandwiches from room service and woke in the night having been sick all over himself. The attention I got wasn't that great. "I don't know if this girl [Paula Yates] even knows that Hughie is her dad," Botham told the stunned mourners.