![]() ![]() ![]() Georgette had still not been able to return to her writing and must have doubted her ability to do so, for instead of writing “author” she put a line through the box on her marriage certificate marked “Rank or Profession”. It was just two months after her father’s death and so the wedding was just a small, simple one. Two days later on 18 August 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier at St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon. The announcement of Georgette and Ronald’s engagement, The Times, 20 July 1925. ![]() On 20 July 1925, only one month after her father’s death, an announcement appeared in The Times. Caring deeply for Georgette and only recently returned from Africa, her old beau, Ronald Rougier asked her to marry him. Georgette’s brothers were only 13 and 17 when their father died and it soon became clear that their older sister would need to help the family financially – no easy task. ![]() Her mother, Sylvia, had lost her husband and the family breadwinner and for the rest of her life she would live in hotels and rented rooms, never fully adjusting to the life of a genteel, middle-class widow. Georgette never fully recovered from the loss and her father’s death changed everything for her family. On 15 June 1925 George Heyer had a heart attack and died in front of his 22-year-old daughter. ![]()
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