Callum byl(a) sezdán(a) s Lucie Wentworth ŠPIČKOVÁ-THORPE 13 Únor 2010, Praha, Czech Rep.. Lucie (dcera od Ing. Arch. Daniel ŠPIČKA a Victoria WENTWORTH-REILLY-ŠPIČKOVÁ) se narodil(a) 18 Únor 1977, Praha, Czech Rep.. [Schéma rodiny]

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«b»Lucie (Lucy) Wentworth ŠPIČKOVÁ-THORPE -
«/b» Her mother Victoria planed to deliver her in Britain in order to provide her with British n ationality, as she successfully did with Katherine. At that time there was no hope of change in the r epressive and dysfunctional Communist rule in the country. British citizenship was a ticket to freedom and an asset not to be wasted. However, Lucy decided otherwise. She came out early, in fact much too early, at only 28 weeks, and weighted a mere 1 kg at birth. Greatly helped by superb care of neonatologists in Praha, Lucy defied all the gloomy predictions. She was out of the
incubator and at home within three months, healthy and hungry. For a time she held a record ofhaving been the tiniest premature baby successfully cared for in Prague.
Lucy's childhood was a happy one. With her sister Katherine she grew up at the quiet upscale neighborhood U Mrázovky, in a house with a large garden, surrounded by her parents and grandparents Hilar [II] and Eva. While Lucy does not remember her grandmother Eva, who died when «b»Lucy «/b» was two, she keeps fond memories of her grandfather Hilar [II]. She remembers him reading her stories, in particular Brothers Grimms' stories, which she particularly loved.
The musical milieu of the family nourished her musical talent, and she started early with piano and clarinet lessons. At the age of mere 14 years parents sent her to London, England, where she successfully passed the admission exams for both instruments at a school with musical education. It all was made possible only thanks to the "Velvet revolution" of «i» 1989 «/i» and the end of the Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Lucy recalls many long 20-hour-long bus trips between Prague and London, her loneliness in London, and her longing for home. However, it did not take long time and she started to like the school, where she found good friends. The school was very good both academically and musically and she keeps good memories of the four years spent there.
After graduation she decided to try something else and she enrolled at the Oxford University, Oriel College, in an undergraduate program of Germanic and Italian languages. After the Oxford she nonetheless decided to return to music and she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where for five years she studied singing. Lucy is gifted with a beautiful voice, officially a mezzo-soprano, yet in the humble opinion of this writer, a voice with a range of a beautiful haunting alto.
At the Academy she met her future husband «b»Callum Thorpe«/b» , also a singer. Life imitated art, as «b»Lucy «/b» says, and after having been cast as a married couple in one of the performances, they got married on «i» February 13, 2010 «/i» in Praha. Callum, a bass baritone, has achieved an international reputation.
Lucy and Callum have two sons:
«b»a) Oskar«/b» , born on «i» July 18, 2010«/i» , and «b»b) Felix Henry Augustus Thorpe«/b» , born on
«i» September 27, 2013«/i» , both in London, England. «b»
«/b» The family lives in London.

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From Petr PETRIK: "«b»FAMILY CHRONICLE: Family of Diana Špičková«/b»"«b»
Ing Arch Daniel Špička«/b» -
Daniel, his sister Diana and brother Hilar [III] spent the end of the Nazi occupation in South Bohemian country house in Libnic, where their parents believed them sheltered from the expected bombardment of Praha (their Prague flat was actually hit by a German bomb on the very last day of the war, May 8th,1945 !)
Daniel started elementary school at the English School in Praha, which was reopened in 1945 . Unfortunately the school, as well as all other educational institutions modeled on western schools were closed immediately after the Communist takeover in 1948.
Daniel was also a Boy Scout until Communists abolished the Scout movement in 1949. He loved to draw and paint; yet the passion of his life became music, which he first discovered through private piano lessons. As he grew up and matured the list of musical instruments he played continued to expand, as well as the range of music he performed. Besides piano and other keyboard instruments he played guitar and viola da gamba, renaissance woodwinds and brass instruments. Nonetheless, he chose to study Architecture at the Technical University in Praha. While still at the University Daniel reminisces how instead of attending his lectures at the University, he spent hours in the Archives of the Library of the National Museum in Praha copying scores of otherwise unavailable music. Later, in 1977 he founded Capella Renesex, a group of professional musicians with a mission to perform renaissance and early baroque music on authentic instruments.
As a young boy he was deeply impressed by Alexander Dumas' Three Musketeers and vowed to master the three skills of his hero swashbuckling d'Artagnan: horse riding, fencing and shooting. Although he accomplished all three, it was horse riding he pursued with greatest passion. Since the Communist ideologists considered this activity as a decadent aristocratic pastime, it had been somewhat difficult to get into it. The riding school in Praha, which had a long tradition, and which I also attended, survived only thanks to disguising itself as a paramilitary organization. I believe it was there I met him for the first time. Subsequently Daniel used every opportunity to ride horses. During summer holidays he worked hard in breeding stables, which gave him an almost unlimited riding time, and in the Barrandov Film Studios, where he used to play extras requiring horse riding skills in historical movies.
In 1970 he met Victoria Wentworth Reilly in Praha. Victoria was born on July 30, 1941 in Clewer, Windsor. Her father Paul Reilly was born in Liverpool and her mother Pamela Wentworth Foster in London, England. In 1957 Victoria moved with her mother to Canada, and studied at the Toronto Collegiate Institute. Subsequently she went on to study General English at Trinity College, University of Toronto, graduating in 1962 . Victoria was sent in 1970 to Praha by The Sunday Telegraph to write about the Czech glass industry. The meeting turned out to be momentous, and Daniel and Victoria married on January 13, 1973 in London, England. Victoria's move to Praha at the height of the Communist repression following the aborted "Prague Spring " of 1968 was very courageous indeed. It was the time when all hopes of regaining lost political and personal freedom were crushed. The couple continued to live with Daniel's parents in the family house U Mrázovky.
Victoria and Daniel have two daughters: A) Katherine (Kateřina) Wentworth Špičková-Demelová, born on May 14, 1974 in London, England, and B) Lucie (Lucy) Wentworth Špičková-Thorpe, born on February 18, 1977 in Praha. (And five grandsons, now).
As an architect Daniel devoted his career mostly to interior and furniture design, as well as the restoration of historical buildings and interiors. Daniel built up a private collection of historical musical instruments, which he restored and even built himself. The ongoing practice of music remains an important constant of his life. One of his the most notable achievements has been the founding of an annual Festival of Baroque Music in Valtice Castle in Moravia. The Festival, of which he had been an artistic director from its inception in 1989, became a cultural event with an established tradition until 2006. The result of his long involvement with Valtice has been the reconstructed Valtice Castle Baroque Theatre, designed by him and his partner Mikulas Hulec and completed in 2015.
At the time of this writing he is as busy as ever, with many plans in both architectural restoration and music, never thinking of retirement.

Daniel byl(a) sezdán(a) s Victoria WENTWORTH-REILLY-ŠPIČKOVÁ 13 Leden 1973, London, England. Victoria (dcera od Sir Paul REILLY a Pamela WENTWORTH-FOSTER) se narodil(a) 30 Červenec 1941, Windsor, UK. [Schéma rodiny]

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«b»Hilar (ii) ŠPIČKA«/b» -
studied at the Karlova University in Praha, and subsequently specialized in Internal
medicine. During his medical studies he met his future wife «b»Eva Kubertová«/b». He was an avid and dedicated member of the Sokol movement. He had excelled in sports, particularly in gymnastics, and remained an accomplished athlete most of his life. Hilar [II] was a modest man of strong moral principles. He valued personal honesty above anything else. He never abandoned the principle of simple frugal lifestyle, acquired during his youth and during his University studies, when he often struggled to make the ends meet.
After graduation, he held a position of an Assistant (Staff physician with academic appointment) at the Department of Internal medicine at the Vinohrady Hospital in Praha. In «i» 1936 «/i»he opened a private practice, with a subspecialty for diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract«i» . «/i»He kept his private practice until late «i» 1950s«/i», when the Communist government in a sweep of Nationalization of Healthcare closed all private medical practices. Subsequently he worked in a Public Health Clinic at Klimentská Street in Praha.
MUDr Hilar [II] had deep social feelings and his quest for social justice made him left leaning in his youth. However, the hypocrisy and duplicity of Communists in and after «i» 1948 «/i»left him deeply disillusioned. He had a natural gift to relate to people of all social backgrounds, and had been respected and loved by his patients. His daughter «b»Diana «/b»recalls assisting him after the official closure of his practice in his office, where he continued to see patients thus defying the official closure. This had been done at considerable risk for quite a longtime. The fact that he was never reported is a testimony of the loyalty of his patients.
On «i» July 4, 1931 «/i»he married «b»MUDr Eva Kubertová .«/b»«i» «/i»The interlude between the time of their graduation from the Medical School and the liquidation of the Czechoslovakia after the Munich accord on «i» September 30, 1938 «/i»was relatively short. Nonetheless, they had enjoyed the just earned financial freedom, as well as
the political freedom the "First Czechoslovak Republic" had offered. They vacationed travelling throughout the Europe, in particular enjoying the skiing in the Alps. At home, their favored sport activities were canoeing, hiking and mountaineering.
At the beginning of the WW II he bought a family summerhouse with a large garden at Pikovice, at the bank of the river Sázava, some 30 km south of Praha. This proved to be an excellent decision, as the whole family had been enjoying it for a number of decades. For Hilar [II], who loved physical work and activity, the house, which required constant attention, and the with the orchard, became his regular escape on weekends and vacations mitigating the of life during the Communist era. Since the property was situated in the proximity of a military areal during the German occupation, it was expropriated in «i» 1944«/i», though r to the family after the end of the war. During the last year of the war Hilar and Eva sent three children to the family house in Libni During his retirement the beloved Pikovice to be Hilar [II]'s refuge and sanctuary. As long as his health allowed, he had been
spending even longer periods of time there, enjoying above all the nature and the work in the He had been very fortunate that even in Praha he had a large garden. Having lived until end of his life in his own house in Praha surrounded by Daniel's family, and having the to watch his beloved granddaughters to grow up and mature, was a blessing of his age. And it had been made possible only because of the loving care of his daughter'96in'96law «b» Victoria, «/b»and his son «b» Daniel«/b». [II] and Eva Kubertová - had three children: «b» A) Daniel, B) Diana «/b»and «b» C) Hilar [III] .
«/b»(«u»Source«/u»: «i»From Petr PETRIK: "«b»FAMILY CHRONICLE: Family of Diana Špičková«/b»" «/i»)

Hilar byl(a) sezdán(a) s MUDr. Eva KUBERTOVÁ-ŠPIČKOVÁ, - plastická chirurgie 4 Červenec 1931. Eva (dcera od Julius KUBERT, - pražský setník a Bohumila (Milka) ZÁTKOVÁ-KUBERTOVÁ, - překladatelka angl. literatury) se narodil(a) 8 Prosinec 1903, Praha, Czech Rep.; zemřel(a) 16 Duben 1979, Praha. Czech Rep.. [Schéma rodiny]

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«b»MUDr Eva Kubertová
«/b»(«i»December 8, 1903 in Praha '96 April 16, 1979 in Praha)
«b»«/i»Eva «/b»and her younger brother «b»Julius [II]«/b» lost her father very early in their lives; she was four
years old, Julius [II] only seven months. Their loving mother Bohumila doted on the children.
Their grandfather August [I] Zátka, who was also their guardian, played an important role in their
lives. Eva had been involved in the Scout movement from her early youth. She put her heart and
soul in the Scouting and spent weekends and vacations of her adolescent years hiking, camping,
and sharing wonderful time with friends, many of whom remained friends for life.
«b»«i»A note on Czech Scouting
«/b»Dr A. B. Svojsík, professor at a secondary school, started his first experiments with
Scouting in Bohemia in 1911. The country was then still part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
He published Základy Junáctví (Foundations of Scouting), which differed in several important
aspects from the British model. Dr A. B. Svojsík put greater emphasis on the life in the nature and
life in harmony with the nature, thus directly building on the American Woodcraft. He did not
stress the military elements of the original Robert Baden Powell's model. Also, in contrast to a
number of other countries, the movement did not incorporate religious elements. Nonetheless,
since the Czech Scout movement took off immediately after the foundation of the independent
Czechoslovak state based on the principle of national identity (in 1918), unsurprisingly it included
ideals of patriotism.
Dr A. B. Svojsík's tomb with his bust happens to be located next to the Kubert's family
tomb in the illustrious cemetery at Vy in Praha.
Another direct link to Dr A. B. Svojsík is through my mother. She was a close friend of Dr
Svojsík's daughter, with whom she intensively participated in the Scouting activities as well.
«/i»Eva studied Medicine at the Karlova University in Praha, where she met her future
husband «b»MUDr Hilar [II] «/b». They got married on «i»July 4, 1931 «/i»in Praha«i». «/i»In Hilar [II] she
found an ideal companion for travels and many outdoor activities. The collection of family
photographs contains numerous pictures from skiing and mountaineering trips, canoeing trips
and motoring in the Alps. Well into her years Eva loved to swim in the river Sázava in Pikovice
until late autumn. Eva and Hilar [II] had three children, all born in Praha«b»:
a) Daniel«/b», born on «i»February 5, 1939«/i», «b»b) Diana«/b», born on «i»November 16, 1940 «/i»and «b»c) Hilar [III] ("Pli «/b»born on J«i»anuary 22,1943.
«b»«/i»Eva «/b»specialized in plastic surgery under Prof MUDr František Burian in Praha, and became his favored and promising assistant. Prof Burian was the founder of the Czech school of plastic surgery, and earned international recognition for his pioneering work on facial reconstructions. When Eva chose family over a promising academic career, Prof Burian was disappointed, as he foresaw a promising academic career for her. She opened a successful private practice in «i»1936. «/i»In the early «i»1950s«/i», like most of the physicians, she had to close it following fundamental reorganization of the Heath Care system by the Communist government.
She continued to work as a plastic surgeon in a Public Health Clinic at Klimentská ulice in Praha,
the same one in which her husband Hilar [II] and my father MUDr Karel Peyerl von Peyersfeld
worked as well. After her retirement she found great comfort and happiness in having around her
two grand-daughters. Eva visited us in Lausanne in«i»1967«/i». We fondly remember a memorable trip
with her across a glacier to the Monte Rosa Hut. In Canada she visited our family only once, in
mid-seventies, while we lived in Edmonton.
In the matters of her own health, her attitude of benign neglect was not unlike that of her
mother's. She suffered of hypertension, a condition with strong predisposition in the Zátka family,
and ultimately died of one of its complication, a stroke. Admittedly, efficient medical treatment of
hypertension had a lot to be desired then.
(«u»Source«/u»: «i»From Petr PETRIK: "«b»FAMILY CHRONICLE: Family of Diana Špičková«/b»" «/i»)

Paul — Pamela WENTWORTH-FOSTER. [Schéma rodiny]