Real Div Lifestyles [RDL]
Shirley Goulden Copyright (C) 2000ad By Gavin Embry

              Shirley Goulden
Copyright (C) 2000ad By Gavin Embry

Shirl's History

 
She was born in Leeds in 1928, was moved to London while three or four, from where she frequently visited her Ukrainian grandparents in Wales, while living in London for most of the rest of her life: But, after her first marriage, she also resided and traveled widely in North Africa, the USA, South Africa, and Continental Europe.
 
Especially while married to John van Eyssen, she entertained and shared friendships with the most talented American, British and European actors and actresses. Tempted, by many, to use her beauty,
 singing voice (and acting) abilities, she continued to write children's stories, designed and written (or re-told) to inspire children to love to read, and to love learning to read. 
 
During the course of her career and travels she was an occasional
guest of Queen Elizabeth II, and Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and met the former General Secretary of the United Nations. Some of her children's books were obtained by Queen Elizabeth II, for reading by her Royal Children and Grandchildren. 
 
Later, starting in 1973 Shirl became:
  1.  Sole partner of Gavin Embry [GE] (advising and supporting his management consulting firms in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and America), while she continued to: 
  2. write 36 books for children
  3. raise her son, David, and
  4. deal in residential property, and
  5. launch library research (in London, California and the Internet) to write about
  6. historical adventures (Europe and America)  and (finally) 
  • Shirl and Gavin married in 1999 (after she  became a widow, and he a widower) and they:
  1. Decided to explore the possibility of setting up a base in (Gavin's old stamping grounds) the California Coast. (Frustrated by US Government's so-called Homeland Security's panic and incredible idiocy, after the assault on the Twin Towers):  In 2006
  2. They moved to the Kent Coast and co-founded Real Div Lifestyles [RDL] to reduce all uses of fossil fuels (which added to polluting the Earth's atmosphere with up to 30tons/year/person of  CO2 ): as RDL's fight Against War and (Global) Warming.
  • At age of 82, Shirl's third assault of (breast, epithelial and bone) cancer, combined with a bus-stop accident, finally defeated her at 10:20pm on the 21st of July 2010. 
  • Shirl's final wish was for GE (and his family, friends and associates) to defend David, all children and pets: Especially, against WorldWide lack of teaching reading and ignorance about CO2 pollution, including but not limited to governmental, political and most religious and business leaders lack of concern with Global Warming.