Charles Fitzwilliam
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Out of Character
Let's hope that Charlie and Ruth actually remain NPCs.
Scout's creation.
In Character
Specifics
Full Name: (Sir) Charles Ian Fitzwilliam
Nickname(s): Charlie, Papa
Species: Angel
Birthdate: 7 July, 1934
Birthplace: Cape Town, South Africa
Hometown: Corsham, Wiltshire, England/Cape Town, South Africa
Currently Resides: (Kensington) London, England
Family: Wife, Ruth Fitzwilliam. Children, Claire Camden, Louise Fitzwilliam, Eleanor Fitzwilliam-Blumberg and Patrick Fitzwilliam.
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to Ruth Fitzwilliam
Schooling: Eton College, University of Cape Town
Occupation: CEO and lead designer of the Fitzwilliam Diamond Company, retired.
Detailed Information
Physical Description
Charlie stands a lithe 6'3". He has light brown hair, the same yellow-green eyes as his grandson, Avery, and fair skin. Sometimes he grows a moustache, but the fear of it catching fire provokes his wife to tell him to get rid of it. Despite the fact that he is seventy three, he looks as though he is forty two. If that.
He always has a hat on (usually a wool cap) and is always smoking a pipe.
Personal Information
Charlie is a master craftsman, able to make anything out of anything but incredibly gifted at designing jewelry, from concept to creation.
He also enjoys long walks and hikes through the countryside, and collecting pipes. And hats. And belt buckles. And cars. How I forgot to mention the cars, I don't know. He has a garage out in the countryside and his own team of mechanics. The man loves cars. He has just about every rare model and important antique and new and expensive model you could think of. He gave Claire his old Rolls Royce for her 18th birthday (see her wiki page) despite the fact that she could not drive yet. Cars, pipes, hats, buckles.
He's also quite posh, but you wouldn't expect anything less coming from the richest man in Great Britain, would you? His poshness includes speaking mostly-fluent French. He also speaks fluent Afrikaans. His mother never taught her children Irish.
He was awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year for 1981 and the KBE in May 2007, and now enjoys being Sir Charles Fitzwilliam. However, one guess which award he covets more.
Backstory
Charlie was born to Randolf and Isabella Fitzwilliam on 7 July, 1934. He has two younger siblings, Scott and Alice, and four children, Claire Driscoll, Louise Barker, Eleanor Fitzwilliam-Blumberg and Patrick Fitzwilliam. He was the first Fitzwilliam child born in Cape Town since the family fled after The Fitzwilliam Massacre in 1881.
He was also the first angel born into the family.
His mother, Isabella Radcliffe, was an angel from a very long and very distinguished line. She came from Ireland, in a location she never specified because it no longer mattered to her; her family shunned her for marrying a human. Isabella was madly in love with Randolf, and he with her, and the rift in the family was barely noticed. Isabella lavished attention on her children and vowed that no one should ever try to come between two lovers.
But she was also very much against use of immortality on anyone. Immortality was a curse, not a blessing, in her mind. She instructed her children to never use it, even on their true love. As a result, Charlie never gave Ruth the gift of immortality. Their age difference looks bizarre, but he loves her just as much as he always has, and he tends to age himself when out in public.
Charlie only met his grandmother once. Her name is Cecily Ó Móráin. She spoke no English and came only to see the birth of Claire (though she wasn't truly there to see the birth at all), before leaving again.
Charlie's father was a jewelry designer, and he helped train Charlie to take over the job of president and CEO of The Fitzwilliam Diamond Company. He and Isabella were attentive parents, sending their children to good schools while keeping strong familial ties so that they would never feel alone. Family was important to them and this is likely the first generation where the strong family bonds that the Fitzwilliams are now known for, came into fruition.
While attending Eton College, Charlie spent his final year goofing off far more than any other. One weekened, he took his friends to London and met Ruth Andrews, who was attending the Royal Ballet School. He was smitten. His friends made plenty of jokes about it, but Charlie didn't care. He hounded Ruth for weeks and months about dating her, attempted to woo with every bone in his body, and eventually won out.
Unfortunately, Charlie went back to Cape Town for university. But, amazingly, Ruth didn't let him get away that easily. They were engaged four years after meeting and married when Charlie left university, in 1954. At twenty and nineteen, the couple decided not to have children just yet. They traveled around the world for over a decade, during which Randolf began preparing to hand his job over. Charlie became the official CEO in 1960. Seven years later, he and Ruth had their first of four children.
For the first thirteen years, they did extensive renovations on the Fitzwilliam Estate, which Charlie's parents moved out of in favor of living at the very old family estate in England. During this time, South Africa was becoming a risky place to raise their children, and using Claire's acceptance into the Royal Ballet School as an excuse, Ruth and Charlie moved to London. They kept the estate, handed it over to caretakers who had been in the family for decades, and waited for the right moment to return.
Charlie and Ruth, however, didn't return. Claire did.
Backstory: Simplified
Charlie Fitzwilliam was the first generation of angels born into the Fitzwilliam family. His mother, an angel from a family of angels centuries upon centuries old, was shunned by her family for marrying a human. Charlie never got to know his mother's history, but the lack of a supportive family made Isabella's goal to pamper her husband and children and Charlie lived a wonderful life in Cape Town, South Africa, and on an estate in England.
He met Ruth Andrews in 1950 and married her four years later. Thirteen years after that, they had their first of four children and adjusted to life as the head of the Fitzwilliam Diamond Company.
In 1980, they moved to London, England, both to escape the unpredictability of South Africa and to support their oldest daughter's admission into the Royal Ballet School. They still live in that house today.
