Name: Anonymous 2015-04-28 22:07
But when Sarah fell pregnant for the seventh time five years ago, his life imploded.
Charles knew with devastating certainty that he could not be the father - for by then the couple had not had a sexual relationship for some months.
After a bitter confrontation, his wife confessed that the pregnancy was the result of a one-night stand. Terrible enough after a long marriage, you may think. But worse was to come.
Last year, DNA tests ordered by his wife revealed that Charles was not the father of his four youngest children either.
They were the product of a secret 14-year affair his wife had been conducting with local businessman Richard Mills - the same man who had fathered her seventh child.
Sarah, 49, had known all along, but callously allowed her husband to believe they were his.
The discovery has sent shockwaves through the heart of the family.
The two eldest, Alison, now 26, and 24-year-old Charles junior, have left home. But the four younger children who Charles also thought were his - now aged 12, ten, nine and six - live with their mother in the former
Charles, meanwhile, has been forced to move out, and is facing his 70th birthday with only with his memories for company.