Julie Wheelwright
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526 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Julie Wheelwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They meet in February, they're engaged by March, and by July they're married.
Yes, exactly.
Perhaps they really did fall madly in love, but it's also convenient for both of them because he's an officer in the Dutch army, he's home on leave,
He's twice her age as well.
And, you know, she's beautiful.
So she's thinking financial security, you know, and let's... I can understand that.
It's very easy to read father figure in there as well.
It is.
Absolutely.
And also one of the things that's really fascinating about the letters that survive, there was a wonderful cache of letters that was published in 2017.
And she describes how
She had the sense of losing her respectability and she wanted to get that back.
She wanted to be a respectable woman.
But she's kind of two people because there's also this part of her that wants to go on the stage and, you know, is glamorous and flamboyant and really attracted to an artistic life.
So she meets MacLeod.
They whirlwind romance.
They have a son, Norman, and then they head off to the Dutch island.
East Indies, so to Java and Sumatra, which is where he is stationed.
And that's a really, really important period in her life, partly because she has another child and both of those children are poisoned.
We don't
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