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The Author has written a Fiction storyline, based on Historical Facts. Author using fictional historical characters based on the life of a Family living in Eaton Square during the 1800's and how their lives developed.

All the characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the Author, and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same names. They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to the Author, and all the incidents are pure invention.The Author's right to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Design and Patents Act, 1988.

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Chapter 1. ( extract)

My name is Henrietta but everyone called me Hettie. When I was 4 years old we moved into Eaton Square four days before Christmas eve 1827. We had a big tree in the drawing room on the first floor. Mother asked me to help decorate the tree. Grandpa placed a Star on top of the tree. Our house was newly built for my grandpa Barnabas.

My mother Clement told me that Grandpa Barney made his fortune in Cotton and that he came from Bolton North Yorkshire. Granma Geneve having emigrated from Finland never spoke about her family.Our Eaton Square house in which my family live was a large predominantly three bay wide building in a classical style of its time.

It overlooks St Peter's Church in the square. The house has five main storey, plus two attic rooms for the servants and basement kitchen and coal cellars.It was not always a happy home. One of our maid servants Lala who worked in the kitchen ,was eventually appointed to look after me my governess. She wasn't a very nice person. Her clothes smelled of mothballs. She made me cry a lot!

Grandpa Barney a stern looking man he had a long white beard that looked unkempt at all times. He had a wry sense of humour. He occasionally winked at me with his powder blue eyes. Especially when I was told that I had done something naughty.I now know that I intuitively realised as a four year old child, that my grandfather did not like my father Timothy Percival.

Father was born in 1803.He met mother at a church fate. He asked her to marry him 4 times and every time she refused.Several months later he attempted for the 5th time to get an answer from mother. Apparently, father stood all night in his off white suit under a tree in the wind and rain. He refused to move from under the trees unless mother agreed to marry him.

The Yorkshire house where mother and her parent lived overlooked the tree lined street where father stood.In 1811 George IV was 48 when he became Regent, as a result of the illness of his father, George III. I heard mother telling Kitty that King George secretly and illegally married a Roman Catholic, Mrs Fitzherbert. Mother who was anti Catholic thought that what the King did was disgraceful to the nation.

In 1795 he officially married Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Mother also explained that the marriage was a failure. Mother said that she was brought up with the understanding that failure of a marriage was never an option. Although the king tried unsuccessfully to divorce Caroline after his accession in 1820, Caroline died in 1821. The sad tale did not end there. Their only child Princess Charlotte died giving birth to a stillborn child.

When I was a little older Father took us to Brighton to see the Royal Pavilion that George IV built.Father who was a monarchist was delighted when George IV transformed Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.George's fondness for pageantry helped to develop the ceremonial side of monarchy according to father.

It was a foggy and rainy night in January 1828 when I was sent to stay with aunt Bessie in Bolton for a few weeks. I learnt later in my life that during that period mother gave birth to her 6th child Emily Grace who died a few days after her birth. Father never spoke of it as he apparently thought it was mothers fault.

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