She played under an oak tree in a park during the summer holidays, once trying to climb it but cutting herself in the attempt, and was banned by her mother from climbing after a boy from another school fell from it. ( AUDIO: The Miniaturist)Īs a child, Dorothea played Mary in a nativity play, stuffing a pillow up her front to look pregnant and riding into Bethlehem on a hobby horse, but had no lines. ( AUDIO: The Incherton Incident) Her mother told her about Maureen, whom she called 'Mole', and said that she and Dorothea had the same ears. ( AUDIO: The Miniaturist) The family lived near a man who suffered from shell shock because of World War II. Whilst one account had Dorothea claiming to be born in one of the poorest parts of London, ( PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask) others agreed that she came from north of the capital city, ( PROSE: Salvation AUDIO: The Incherton Incident) with one specifying Yorkshire ( AUDIO: The Incherton Incident) and another mentioning that she had family in North Yorkshire. ( PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Steven Taylor would later speculate that she was a descendant of Anne Chaplet ( TV: The Massacre) who, according to one account, fled to Picardy with her brother, Raoul, to avoid the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. ( PROSE: Salvation) Her grandfather was French ( TV: The Massacre) and, for a school project, she researched her family tree, finding evidence that she was descended from Huguenots who left France to escape persecution. 6.2 Will the real Dodo Chaplet please stand up?ĭorothea Anne Chaplet, ( PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) also known as 'Dorry' when she was a child, was born in 1949.

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