Harold Birch

Harold Birch was Edna Birch's husband and Lawrence White's lover.
Harold asked his close friend from church, Edna Burrows, to marry him several times but each time Edna turned him down until she learned her sixteen-year-old sister Lily was pregnant and neither Lily nor the baby's father Joe Scarlet wanted the baby. Edna wouldn't allow the baby to be adopted so she and Harold married in about 1963 and together they raised Lily and Joe's son Peter as their own child. As Harold was a closeted homosexual, his marriage with Edna was simply a marriage of convenience and was never consummated. Edna was aware of Harold’s sexuality, but believed if she stayed with him, he will love her back the same way she loves him. 
Soon, Harold embarked on an affair with his friend Lawrence White. When Edna discovered the affair, she reported Harold and Lawrence to the police due to homosexuality being illegal at the time. Edna revealed many years later that she reported them out of jealously and spite; as she realised Harold will never love her like she loves him.
Harold was released without charge as he was a respectable married man, but Lawrence was sent to prison. Harold told Edna that Lawrence had hung himself in his prison cell, which Edna believed until she met Lawrence in 2014.
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Category:Birch family
Category:Burrows family