During World War II, many thousands of young men joined the British Army to fight for King George VI and Country, but tragically too many of them died by the time the War had ended.
Thankfully, I was amongst all those soldiers who survived and soon managed to return back home to a civilian life in England.

Shortly afterwards, I met my wife-to-be and we celebrated by taking a coach journey with some of our closest friends on a couple of days visit to Stratford-upon-Avon.
Whilst there, we looked around the Shakespeare houses and also saw where the ‘Bard of Avon’ was laid to rest inside the Church of the Holy Trinity on the River Avon, with his body entombed along the main aisle close to the Chantry Chapel of the aristocratic Clopton family.

Several months later I joined the Legal profession, before then marrying my wife Mavis and over the next few years we were blessed with three wonderful children.
Throughout my career, I would read as much literature as I could find about these two famous Stratford-upon-Avon families, but it was only after I retired that I had the time to delve a lot deeper and discover even more about them both, including how their lives overlapped.

With the benefit of some less well known historical manuscripts and other documents however, I also uncovered the now evidently forgotten, but remarkable legend of the ancestral HOUSE OF KLOPT0N.
I subsequently decided to compile all of the information and stories I had gathered into creating this book for posterity and to include the events told across time by those family descendants born into the original long lost bloodline.