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LUCIan met Katherine Mcadam when she was a 19-year-old fashion student and he was married to his first wife, Kitty. They had four children (Jane, Lucy, Paul and David) — all born after Freud’s second, childless, marriage to Caroline Blackwood had collapsed. Freud’s womanising drove Mcadam to despair, and in 1966 she moved to a council flat. The children didn’t see their father again until they were adults. They were excluded from his will. 1. The Sculptor JanE McadaM FrEud, born in 1958, lives in Harrow, north west london, with an architect and two grown-up stepsons.

She was 31 when she reconnected with her father after winning a scholarship to the rome academy of Fine art. He asked if she would teach him to sculpt.

lucian helped fund a master’s degree at the royal College of art but they saw less of each other as he grew older. Jane was angry that their branch of the family was not acknowledged by him.

‘He always (wrote) to us on cards with his work on it. i keep them in a box. That’s all it is, though. a little box of bits. Half our parentage,’ Jane said. 2. Cruise ship artist who married a plumber luCY McadaM FrEud is one of lucian’s three children born in 1961. a gifted artist, she graduated from the wimbledon School of art. She is now an art instructor for Cunard cruises.

She has two sons, Peter and James, by her ex-husband, a plumber she married when she was 22. lucian was invited to the wedding but didn’t come.

when she visited him as he was ailing in 2011, she hadn’t seen him for 15 years. She said: ‘He stroked my cheek and cuddled me as if there had never been such a distance between us. He told me, “i’m a very selfish person”. Maybe it was a kind of apology on his part.’ 3. The son who contested the will Paul McadaM FrEud, 58, an artist, re-established contact with his father in 1989 at a book launch. lucian said that he wanted to paint Paul’s wife Kathryn (a doctor with whom Paul has three children). She did not sit for him.

‘i was a bit livid. why would i want my father looking at my wife naked?’ said Paul, who lives in Southwark, South london.

But a relationship developed

between father and son, with visits, postcards and phone calls.

In 2014, Paul lost a three-year battle over his father’s will. About £42 million, the bulk of the estate after tax, had been left to a secret trust run by a solicitor and his half-sister Rose Boyt.

Paul was told that he and his siblings would not get a share of the fortune and that the documents would remain secret.

Paul had first met his half-sister Rose — although he didn’t know their relationship at the time — at a club where they both worked when he was in his 20s.

‘I never knew I had a [half] sister,’ he said. ‘I was captivated. She was very attractive, and I was an active young man. She had a friend, and I remember thinking, Which one? — they were both attractive and friendly. I ended up seeing her friend. I learned about Rose a couple of years later.’

4. The magic mushroom enthusiast

DAvID, at 53, the youngest of the McAdam Freuds, lives in East Sussex with a former vogue fashion editor. He was artist-inresidence at Worthing Museum last year.

He also works for the charity A Band Of Brothers, which mentors young men who feel the lack of a father figure. David has four children by three different mothers and lost touch with one, violet, when she was a baby.

When he was 24, he met his father in a bar but they never developed a relationship. He did, however, see him — and paint him — on his deathbed.

‘Lucian was so secretive and such a very strange character,’ he said.

David eventually met all ten of his acknowledged half-siblings, some for the first time, at their father’s funeral.

In September, David signed an online petition calling for the ‘re-legalisation of the supply and possession of Psilocybin or “magic” mushrooms’.