Just a couple of quick notes. Geoff is not pronounced Jeff, but "J (like the begining of Jeff) off". (Aunt Catherine thought Jeff was too peon-ish). LAFA is one of those acronoms that is said as a word. la FA (with the inflection and stress on Fa), as in the music notes, and it stands for the London Association of Financial Advisors.


Fitzwilliam Geoff Darcy III, of the reclusive LAFA Darcys, was extremely successful. So was his alter ego, Geoff Williams, lyricist, lead singer, and bass guitar for the pop band DarK. Although both were quite famous, no one ever made the connection between the two. It was helpful, of course, that the financial bigwigs and DarK fans didn't run in quite the same circles. But, never one to leave anything to chance, Geoff never gave television interviews, and the only DarK memorabilia that carried his image were the album covers, which always featured him standing behind his other two band mates, Char Daniels, lead guitarist, and George Anthony, drummer.

Neither Char nor George thought this was strange, for they were also not known by their real names. No one in their right mind would listen to a band made up of Europe's best financial advisor, the only son of London bank tycoon Robert Emerton Bingley, and one of the youngest members of the House of Lords. So in order to be taken seriously, Fitzwilliam Geoff Darcy, Charles Daniel Bingley, and George Anthony Wickham all got creative with their given names and created a European pop sensation that was set to take the rest of the world by storm.