Jamie King
Born: November 10, 1974, Arlington, VA, USA
Occupation: Student
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Jamie King is the younger of Joe and Amanda King’s two sons, born after they relocated to Arlington, Virginia following Joe’s graduation from law school. He began school in 1981 due to having a late-in-the-year birthday, which means he is scheduled to graduate from high school (or, in England, complete sixth form) in 1993.
Of the two King boys, Jamie is more sensitive, more studious, and quieter. His school grades are excellent and his interests range from science and technology, to math, to music and popular culture.
Although Joe was still living in Arlington at the time of Jamie’s birth, he was first deployed overseas in 1977 and Jamie only has the vaguest of memories of living with his father in the house. He does, however, remember his grandmother Dotty West moving in after she was widowed in 1981. He was particularly close to his mother during his preteen years, especially after his parents finalized their divorce in 1982.
When his mother began openly dating Lee Stetson in 1986 (at least to her family’s knowledge), the relationship began on somewhat rocky ground due to Jamie’s jealousy. However, they soon discovered a mutual interest in photography, which began moving things in the right direction.
Jamie is also a sports fan, especially for the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Redskins. As a youth, Jamie played baseball himself, but he aged out of Little League after Summer 1987.
The following October, his brother and grandmother were killed in a car accident, and then-twelve-year-old Jamie was not prepared for that at all. Finding out that Lee was already his stepfather — a revelation which came on the day of the car accident — was a further source of strain.
During that fall, he spent a considerable amount of time acting out, including running away at least once. Joe and Amanda agreed to transfer him to a different school, which further complicated matters but also gave him some desperately needed breathing room. By the end of the 1987-88 school year he had settled into a new routine, though he was still in therapy.
In 1988, when Lee and Amanda were offered a posting to London, they were initially opposed to it. One of the biggest reasons was that they both felt like Jamie had already been through too much change in too short a time period. Both of them were startled when Jamie positively responded to the idea, and they included him in the final decision-making conversations. Lee and Amanda ultimately accepted the postings. Around the same time, his father and stepmother accepted positions in Algeria.
Lee and Amanda left for England on June 18, but Jamie stayed with his father and stepmother for a few weeks afterward. He accompanied them on the first leg of their trip to Algiers, which they arranged to occur through London on July 6. This was to allow him to spend some time with Joe and Carrie while Lee and Amanda looked for a new place to live.
Jamie King was portrayed by Greg Morton.
Timeline
| November 11, 1974 | Born, Arlington, VA, USA |
| August 17, 1981 | Begins school at Arlington Heights Elementary School (K-8) in Arlington, VA |
| January 4, 1988 | Transfers to Swanson Middle School for a semester |
| July 6, 1988 | Leaves for England with his father and stepmother, joining his mother and stepfather who are already living in London. |
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