This beautiful vine of Tudor roses above was created
by Lara E Eakin
It decorates her superb
web
site devoted to the Tudors
Being Tudor, and
thus being English, the Tudor rose is a symbol of my English roots...
and I'm proud of it
This is a shot of my family taken in 1944 when we were still living in our evacuation home in the village of Haunton, England.
Yes, I was a war baby.
Yes, that's me in my mother's arms.
Yes, she's already carrying my immediate younger brother, Francis, who was born about ten months after this picture was taken.
