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<\/p>\nDick and Angel Strawbridge shared a nostalgic post on their Instagram page as the Escape to the Chateau couple celebrated a major turning point in their daughter Dorothy’s life.<\/p>\n
The 11-year-old, along with her old brother Arthur, has been a part of her parents’ documented adventure since they upped sticks and re-located to France, where they began filming for their Channel 4 docuseries in 2016.<\/p>\n
While their series ended in 2022, the popular family have kept their huge following updated with a podcast, a tour and of course their wholesome social media updates.<\/p>\n
On Friday, they left some fans in tears as they marked Dorothy’s last day of junior school by sharing a clip of the youngster’s very first day at school.<\/p>\n
Dick and Angel share regular updates about their two children<\/p>\n
Instagram<\/p>\n
The clip showed a very young Dorothy grinning while Angel, 47, cried. <\/p>\n
“My little girl’s going to school,” the other-of-two states as she hugs the little girl.<\/p>\n
Grabbing a tissue, she joked: “I’m going to be absolutely happy about it… there’s no problem,” before breaking down in tears.<\/p>\n
After dropping her off at the school gates, husband Dick, 65, commented: “She’s two – she’s tiny! I started school in September, I was five in the September. That’s a huge difference from the UK.”<\/p>\n
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Dick and Angel Strawbridge shared the emotional post on their Instagram<\/p>\n
Instagram<\/p>\n
Turning to his emotional wife, he asked: “What do you think about leaving your little girl?”<\/p>\n
Angel managed to reply “good,” before becoming choked up and wiping away tears.<\/p>\n
“Really good?” Dick asked, prompting Angel to admit: “When Arthur went to school, I was sort of quite excited to spend a little bit of time with Dorothy.<\/p>\n
“Because I didn’t think I’d had a lot of time just with Dorothy. What are we going to do?”<\/p>\n
Placing an arm around his wife, Dick responded: “We’re going to go and frolic in the chateau! Come with me, girl,” before they headed back arm in arm.<\/p>\n
The clip then showed a current photo of Dorothy, with the words: “Good luck baby! We can’t wait for your next adventure…” written above.<\/p>\n
They captioned the sweet post: “Hello to you on this fabulous Friday! Well today marks a rather momentous day for Dorothy. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s her last day of junior school and an end of an era! It only feels like yesterday when she walked though those gates. <\/p>\n
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The Strawbridges celebrated a huge milestone<\/p>\n
Instagram <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s been a very special decade and we will truly miss this fantastic school and all the teachers\u2026<\/p>\n
“Tonight we party.. The entire year and Dorothy\u2019s past and present tutors will celebrate here at the chateau\u2026<\/p>\n
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Dick and Angel reflected on the ‘end of an era’<\/p>\n Instagram <\/p>\n “There will be love, laugher and no doubt a few tears! Good luck to our gorgeous, independent, kind and funny little\u2026not so little girl! Xxx.”<\/p>\n Responding in the comments, some fans admitted they’d become tearful watching the clip, with many also wishing Dorothy luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dick and Angel Strawbridge shared a nostalgic post on their Instagram page as the Escape to the Chateau…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,77,68586,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-240761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-escape-to-the-chateau","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114802113185081153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dick](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dick-strawbridge-and-angel-adoree.jpg\")