Modern Fairy Tale
Charlotte Morgan’s husband, Fred, died in an accident. She stayed with their two small children alone. Charlotte was heartbroken but wanted to be strong for her children. She started a successful photographic business, and she also surprised her kids by learning to ride motorbikes. But by the time daughter Zoe was 11 and son Will was 9, what they really wanted was a new dad. Will said: ‘We need a new daddy. What are you going to do about it?’ Charlotte, 41, searched Internet dating sites but with no success. So she gave her laptop to her two children, showed them a website, and said, ‘This is a ‘daddy shop’. You choose one.
The children searched through the photos. They wanted a daddy with a ‘nice smile’ and ‘kind eyes’. Finally, they found Guy Bolam, a 44-year-old divorced father with one daughter. They called their mother to the laptop. Charlotte looked at the photograph. All she could see was a motorbike. ‘It’s him, the man on the bike’, the children said.
Charlotte told them ‘no,’ and she continued looking for different people, but every time she showed the kids someone, they just said, ‘No, man on a bike’. Finally, Charlotte sent Guy an email and attached a photo. He invited Charlotte on a first date, and they got on well immediately. Nine months later Guy asked Charlotte to marry him. They also found the engagement ring on the Internet, and Rose helped her father choose it. All three children together designed the wedding invitation. The story of how Charlotte and Guy met was on the front in Zoe’s handwriting. They now all live happily together in an old farmhouse in Essex.
