Charlotte Bingham | |
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| Born | Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham (1942-06-29)29 June 1942 (age 82) 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) |
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The Hon. Charlotte Bingham (born 29 June 1942) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historicalromance novels and has also written for many television programmes includingUpstairs, Downstairs;Play for Today; andRobin'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 inHaywards Heath, Sussex.[1] Her father,John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member ofMI5. 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 Frencharistocrats with the intention of learning French. She had written since she was 10 years old and her first piece of work was athriller calledDeath's Ticket.[1] Bingham wrote her humorous autobiography, calledCoronet Among the Weeds, when she was 19, and not long before her twentieth birthday a literary agent discovered her celebrating at theRitz. He was a friend of her parents and he took off the finished manuscript of her autobiography.[1] In 1963, this was published byHeinemann and was a best seller.[1]
On April 29, 1963, while inNew York City, Charlotte Bingham appeared on the American TV game show,To Tell the Truth, to promoteCoronet 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 writerTerence Brady. The couple, who have two children, later adaptedCoronet Among the Grass andCoronet Among the Weeds, into the TV sitcomNo, Honestly. Bingham and her husband collaborated on the scripts for three early episodes ofUpstairs, Downstairs, "Board Wages", "I Dies from Love" and "Out of the Everywhere". They later wrote an accompanying book calledRose's Story. They also wrote the episodes ofTake Three Girls featuring Victoria (Liza Goddard). In the 1970s, Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV seriesPlay for Today,Three Comedies of Marriage,Yes, Honestly andRobin's Nest. During the 1980s and 1990s, they continued to write for the occasional TV series and adaptedJilly Cooper's novelRiders for thetelevision filmRiders (1993).
Since the 1980s, Bingham has become a romantic novelist, writing novels includingTo Hear a Nightingale,The Business andIn Sunshine or in Shadow. Most of her books are set in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1996, she won theRomantic Novel of the Year Award from theRomantic Novelists' Association.
