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====About Lady Croft====
====About Lady Croft====
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 rock-climbing 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. <ref>http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/l/lara.htm</ref><ref>http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/lara/info.html</ref><ref>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</ref>
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 rock-climbing 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.<ref>http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/l/lara.htm</ref><ref>http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/lara/info.html</ref><ref>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</ref>
Her father's untimely death left Lara in possession of Abbington, and from there she devotes time - officially - to archaeological pursuits, and she is credited with at least fifteen major discoveries. However, she has been critisized by other archaeologists and government officials for what they call her irresponsibility on the sites, such as destructive methodology or neglecting the documentation of her findings; some have suggested that she is a "glorified treasure hunter" who has removed potentially-valuable artifacts before informing officials of the locations thay have come from.<ref>http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr7/lara_croft_bio.html</ref>
Her income from writing supplements her lifestyle, and her books on travel include ''A Tyrannosaurus Is Jawing at My Head'' and ''Slaying Bigfoot''.<ref>http://www.woa.tv/articles/ae_croftl.html</ref>
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