I saw the picture in this article in my Daily Express this morning.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/131385/Winnie-the-Pooh-r...
Although he subsequently turned out to be "normal", it seems he had an awkward childhood.
I quote from the article:
"Early photographs of the young Christopher Robin show a doe-eyed child whose longish hair and delicate features made it difficult to determine the gender.
His biographer Ann Thwaite claimed: 'His long hair reminded his mother of the girl she had wanted and the father of the boy he himself had been.' As an adult Christopher Robin described his boyhood self as 'small for his age, underweight, needs fattening up and girlish.'"
Penny
Christina Robin?
For some reason, Christopher Robin seemed girlish to me when I saw him in the Winnie the Pooh movie put out by Disney a long time ago. That may be part of why it had been so easy for me to identify with him when I saw that movie.