Recalling Two Wonderful Relatives
My late grandparents on my pater's side lived in King's Road, Slough. I liked them very much, and I do not think I ever had a cross word with them at all. They were a happy couple. They moved from Sudborne Road in Brixton London in the early 1960s if I recall correctly. My grandmother (Helene) was a lover of classical music, and enjoyed playing cards, and other homely entertainments such as Majong, Bagatelle, and Monopoly. She was directly related to a once powerful family known as Ritterhsausen meaning the House of the Knight which has its own coat-of-arms plus a latin motto...Voluntas Ferrea, or Iron Will. Her pater was Baron Von Rittershausen, and he like her was an Austrian. Due possibly to the rise of Communism (he originally had a huge mansion notably in East Berlin) he and his family fled to England loosing their huge wealth. He was possibly the Rittershausen who was once the head of the Austrian Railways. He was among other things a world chess champion, a...