Titania Oberon's parents were driving through the Drakensberg ‎Mountains in Natal, South Africa, on their way to Pietermaritzburg, to ‎bring Titania home for school holidays, when a rock fall pushed their ‎estate car into a ravine, killing them both. At the mausoleum where ‎her parents' ashes were placed, Samuel their Zulu house boy with ‎his wife Matilda, who had cared for Titania from birth, gave Titania a ‎hand carved ivory necklace and locket. Telling her the locket ‎contained a little of her parents' ashes, and strong Ju-Ju, and if ever ‎she was worried or in trouble, to hold the locket in both hands and ‎call his name, and he would always be there. Titania flew to England ‎to her adopted grandfather, to attend Little Upplingtons College for ‎Young Ladies. It was here that Titania realized the power of Samuel's ‎locket.‎