With Miss Widger winning the 2023 Gladstone Trophy many a Liberal chess player was left licking their wounds. How would they overcome the bitter disappointment of losing out on becoming the NLC Chess Champion 2023?
Some turned to drink. Others to gambling. Some sunk even lower and took solace in a Nick Clegg biography.
But not Mister Barnett. Determined to make the best of things he decided that the best – perhaps the only – way to overcome such a cruel blow was to take drastic action: he got engaged.
To the thoroughly lovely Carrie, who the Chess Circle got to meet when Mister Barnett held an incredibly well attended engagement party in the Smoking Room not long ago.
So the King has found his Queen.
From everybody in the NLC Chess Circle: Congratulations Carrie and Mister Barnett!