Southern sojourn
May 11, 2022
3 minutes
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS
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As a child, Charlie Alliott says he was “that weird five-year-old” who saved his pocket money to buy a silver Georgian teaspoon at the village fete. “I’ve always loved beautiful things,” the antiques dealer says. “They say no one sets out to have a career in antiques, though I believe I was destined to.”
Charlie and his wife, former diplomat and now chair of The Fred Hollows Foundation, Jane Madden, live in Canberra, where Charlie owns Fox Antiques and Jane works as a strategist and advisor to businesses, government
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