Henrietta Goodheart, known more familiarly as Netty, was an astronomer at Greenwich Observatory until 2006. Before this she lived in Singapore around the same time as World War Two. She met a man named Richard Philip Goodheart and they married. Three days later during a bombing campaign, they were caught in the blast and Richard died holding her hand as she sang "When the stars begin to fall". She vowed never to marry again and that no other man came close to Richard except for Wilfred Mott. By the 2000s,[nb 1] she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease but remained lively and gregarious. She was able to make light of her condition even joking about the times she would wander the streets in her underwear. Wilfred Mott was very close to her, perhaps romantically, and shared a confidence with her about what his granddaughter had told him of her travels with the Tenth Doctor. She was briefly possessed by the Mandragora Helix. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)
She was also a member of the Silver Cloak. On Christmas Eve in approximately the 2000s,[nb 2] Wilf called her for help locating the Tenth Doctor; she then called June, whose sister had seen the TARDIS. (TV: The End of Time)
Footnotes[]
- ↑ The present day of Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008, and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
- ↑ Both Planet of the Dead and The End of Time are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End, which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS, or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos. However, the year of The End of Time is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Christmas immediately after Journey's End.