Barron Christian

Barron Christian was born just outside of London, England, on December 18th, 1945, soon after World War II had ended. His birth name, a rather long one, is Donald Mark Barron Rolff Christian Mountbatten-Battenberg. Barron was named after many of his clan's influential relatives and their closest friends. Due to the fear of reprisal stemming from his British family's influence during World War II, it was determined that, in 1950, at five years of age, Barron would be brought to America to live as the son of a carefully selected guardian. This move was considered a necessary and prudent precaution under the circumstances. Barron was relocated to Lake Arrowhead, California, a resort community, under the guardianship of Mildred Parker, a relative of his father's closest friend. However, in the early 1950s, a child with a name differing from his parent's was assumed to have been conceived "out of wedlock" and therefore disdained as an illegitimate child. So to avoid spurious gossip, Barron