Liliane and Harry on Wagner's Festival Opera House balcony where trumpeters announce each act

Harry and Liliane McLaughlin Welcome You

For intriguing insights into the lives of the Victorians and Edwardians, open our family photo album by clicking the notice below. The album includes an account of the wartime adventures of one of the first Red Cross nurses, Harry's great-aunt Louisa. It also reveals the secret drawers of a secretaire we donated to the Los Angeles art museum.

Visit the rest of our website by clicking the links listed below. Discover McLaughlin family secrets revealed in our annotated family tree. It traces two lines of descent from England's King Edward I all the way down to cousin Guy Ritchie and his wife Madonna. The file requires Adobe Reader: to download the latest version free, click To see Liliane's genealogy and family emblem click the Drögemüller Family Tree.

We first met in Tahiti. After being together for all of two weeks we decided to get married. For the next quarter of a century we indulged our hobby of adventure travel with trips to more than 100 countries which included treks in the Himalayas, African safaris, walking tours of Japan, and cruising the Antarctic. Harry also traveled through the Congo and off-road across the Sahara during a year-long trip around the world before we married.

We are pictured here with our late friend Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa conqueror of Mount Everest, and his wife Daku, in 1983 at their home in Darjeeling, India. She guided us on a trek through Sikkim and Bhutan while Tenzing led another group — all of whom became sick except for one lady who drank only beer. But we stayed fit because Daku saw to it that every drop of water was boiled, even though it takes forever at 15,000 feet.

We are now continuing our honeymoon at home due to problems following on Liliane being diagnosed with advanced colon cancer in 1987. She was given a dose of radiation equivalent to that received by people within one mile of an atom bomb explosion. It saved her life but its delayed effects required the removal of her small intestine 17 years later. Liliane is now fed intravenously 10 hours a day from a bag like the one in this picture, taken on Christmas Eve 2005 when Liliane was in hospital recovering from a near-fatal infection. She is with nine-year-old Nathan Estipona who came to her bedside to repeat the program of carols which he had just sung solo at a nearby Seventh Day Adventist church.

The previous year Liliane was congratulated by Ted Kennedy Jr., a 30-year cancer survivor, during a reception for cancer survivors at Glendale Adventist Medical Center where she used to help cancer victims.

Certified in Radiation Therapy, Nuclear Medicine, and Radiography, Liliane was a Chief Technologist, the inaugural Manager of the hospital's Cancer Center, and the Radiation Safety Officer. President Clinton wrote to her: "I am delighted to commend you for 40 years of dedicated service..."

In 2006 we spent a week at Costa Mesa to attend Wagner's Ring presented by the Russian Kirov company. On the red carpet going to the reception at the just-opened Segerstrom Concert Hall we stopped to pose with members of the opera company.

We are passionate readers. Liliane, a Laureate of the Royal Flemish Conservatoire, enjoys classical_piano_music, Belgian cuisine, biography, tapestry and illuminated_manuscripts. Harry's interests include art_history, neuropsychology and the origin_of_language. If you have similar enthusiasms please e-mail Harry or Liliane.

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