as recorded in the unpublished diaries of Ellen Palmer with Judi Bowker as Ellen Narrator Stephen Thorne
Note from Archy; ' I fly like a moth into the flame that burns me. Ellen, I cannot live without you. What am I to do? ' In 1854 Ellen Palmer went sightseeing in the Crimea. The war was still going on. While she was there, she fell in love with Archy Peel , a nephew of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. The course of their affair Is described in dramatic and touching detail in Ellen's diary, discovered only in 1973 at the back of an old bureau in a Bouse in North Wales, and made public now for the first time. Compiled by BETTY ASK-WITH. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Judi Bowker is a National Theatre player)