Charlotte Bingham | |
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| Born | Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham 29 June 1942 Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK |
| Pen name | Charlotte Bingham |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1963–present |
| Genre | Romance |
| Notable awards | RoNA Award |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Candida Brady Matthew Brady |
| Relatives | John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (father) Madeleine Bingham (mother) |
| Website | |
| charlottebingham | |
The Hon. Charlotte Bingham (born 29 June 1942) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including Upstairs, Downstairs ; Play for Today ; and Robin's Nest . In her television work, she often worked with her husband, Terence Brady.
The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex. [1] Her father, John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI5. Her mother, Madeleine Bingham, née Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright and biographer. Bingham first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to 16, she went to the Priory of Our Lady's Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath. [1] After she left school, Bingham went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French. She had written since she was 10 years old and her first piece of work was a thriller called Death's Ticket. [1] Bingham wrote her humorous autobiography, called Coronet Among the Weeds, when she was 19, and not long before her twentieth birthday a literary agent discovered her celebrating at the Ritz. He was a friend of her parents and he took off the finished manuscript of her autobiography. [1] In 1963, this was published by Heinemann and was a best seller. [1]
On April 29, 1963, while in New York City, Charlotte Bingham appeared on the American TV game show, To Tell the Truth, to promote Coronet Among the Weeds. In 1966, her first novel, Lucinda , was published. This was later adapted into a TV screenplay. Coronet Among the Grass, her second autobiography (1972), dealt with the first ten years of her marriage to fellow writer Terence Brady. The couple, who have two children, later adapted Coronet Among the Grass and Coronet Among the Weeds, into the TV sitcom No, Honestly . Bingham and her husband collaborated on the scripts for three early episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs , "Board Wages", "I Dies from Love" and "Out of the Everywhere". They later wrote an accompanying book called Rose's Story . They also wrote the episodes of Take Three Girls featuring Victoria (Liza Goddard). In the 1970s, Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV series Play for Today , Three Comedies of Marriage , Yes, Honestly and Robin's Nest . During the 1980s and 1990s, they continued to write for the occasional TV series and adapted Jilly Cooper's novel Riders for the television film Riders (1993).
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