Hal and Christine Thomas

By Hal and Christine Thomas

Christine Thomas was born in Isleworth, Middlesex in 1942 into a strongly Baptist family. Her father was a Sunday School superintendent and Church Deacon whose beautiful singing voice was enjoyed in churches all over London. Her mother was a miniaturist of some renown. Her miniatures hung in places such as the Royal Academy of Arts, Paris Salon, Italy and New York. Moreover, Christine’s mother had gifts of arranging church flowers, dressmaking, even making a dress for the Queen as a teenager! Christine remembers that she and her elder brother had to attend church both morning and evening, and Sunday School in the afternoon.