Claim: John Patterson, on a weekend visit to the duke's estate in Devon (a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south), meets the duke's granddaughter, Lady Patricia Fairfax, and the two, after a cool beginning based on cultural misunderstandings, fall in love with each other..
Evidence: On a weekend visit to the duke's estate near Exmoor in Devon, Patterson meets the duke's granddaughter, Lady Patricia Fairfax (Anna Neagle), a corporal in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, who is David's childhood sweetheart. After a cool beginning based on cultural misunderstandings, they fall in love. Devon (/ˈdɛvən/, also known as Devonshire) is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.