| − | Keen interest in the game resulted in a "biography" of Lara Croft. Officially, she is the Duchess of Abbington, the daughter of an aristocratic archaeologist Lord Henshingly-Croft and Lady Angeline Croft, an 11th generation countess born on February 14, 1968 to a family that was granted the title and rights to Abbingdon, Surrey by King Edward VI in 1547. She was privately-tutored before graduating Wimbelton High School for Girls at the age of 16; she was then sent to Scotland for Gordonstoun Boarding School for two years, taking up activities not related to a girl's finishing school (such as rockclimbing and mountaineering); she was expelled from it after showing "too keen an interest" in shooting. She went to a Swiss finishing school at 18, but a school-sponsored trip to the Himalayas ended in a tragic plane crash deep in the mountains. The only survivor was Lara, who walked into a village some two weeks later, realizing that she was only alive when she was adventuring and away from the confining lifestyle of upper-British society. [http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/l/lara.htm][http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/lara/info.html][http://www.google.com/search?q=lara+croft+history&hl=en&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=wVXOSvO-NYTM8Qb3y-SFBA&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11] | + | Keen interest in the game by fans resulted in a "biography" of Lara Croft. Officially, she is the Duchess of Abbington, the daughter of an aristocratic archaeologist Lord Henshingly-Croft and Lady Angeline Croft; an 11th-generation countess born on February 14, 1968 to a family that was granted the title and rights to Abbingdon, Surrey by King Edward VI in 1547. She was privately-tutored before graduating Wimbelton High School for Girls at the age of 16; she was then sent to Scotland for Gordonstoun Boarding School for two years, taking up activities not related to a girl's finishing school (such as rockclimbing and mountaineering); she was expelled from it after showing "too keen an interest" in shooting. She went to a Swiss finishing school at 18, but a school-sponsored trip to the Himalayas ended in a tragic plane crash deep in the mountains. The only survivor was Lara, who walked into a village some two weeks later. She afterwards realized that she was only alive when she was adventuring and away from the confining lifestyle of upper-British society. [http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/l/lara.htm][http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/lara/info.html][http://www.google.com/search?q=lara+croft+history&hl=en&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=wVXOSvO-NYTM8Qb3y-SFBA&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11] |