Lord Lucan My Husband The Truth

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Anyone watching this?!

Bloody strange woman, bloody strange man, explains a lot!

She is one odd woman. She said herself that all her relationships had been "cold". I wonder how the kids grew up to be?

And I'm not sure she was telling the while truth either. Although it sounds like she was so addled with drugs that she wouldn't really know the truth now anyway.

She's very glamorous.

Did she die recently? Anyway, DH has finished watching Dr Who so am off to watch it on the planner 😊

I think we'd all be a bit 'odd' if we'd lived through all of that.

teaandakitkat. Yes unsure how much of what she said was truth or lies. But she obviously wants to tell her side of the story before she dies.

There's an interesting but hard going (screen colour background!) website of hers detailing events.

She gave me the creeps. She said no one was at their wedding because no one liked either of them, and the way she spoke about her relationship with her children was so cold and detached. She had no empathy and little insight as to why there had been no contact with them for 35 years. Poor children.

I can't believe she left the house with her kids still in there. Who was to say he wasn't going to turn on them? I did it probably wouldn't have been the wisest thing to do to also try and take them with her - but surely it's what most mothers would do?!

She was 'putting her own oxygen mask on first' by running. Let's face it, if she'd tried to grab three children, he would have killed her and the children could well have witnessed the act.

Besides which, the whole scenario was a result of his obsessive devotion to the children and determination to have custody of them, which would have been ingrained knowledge to her.

Oh, just googled her, she's still alive. Yes, she's very odd. Was she odd before they married or did he make her odd? Zero relationship with her children, poor things.

John Aspinall (Aspers) doesn't come out of this well.

I felt sorry for her by the end. I didn't think I would - and yes she was odd but so might I be if I'd been through that. I thought it was strange when she said that people commented no one from Society was at the wedding, but Princess Alice went. Don't royals count?

I saw her son interviewed when they were declaring Lucan dead. Didn't like him, he seemed odd too and looked so much like his father, which probably put me off. Some of the Lucan family didn't have a good reputation if you go back in history. One ordered the Charge of the Light Brigade even thought he was told it could be a total disaster, another was one of the very worst absentee landlords during the Irish famine. It would seem that "Lucky" (so called ironically apparently because he was a bit of a crap gambler) was rather like those two.

I liked the fact that she said Sandra Rivett shouldn't be forgotten, because so often she's almost incidental to the story and is only referred to as "the nanny". She had a young son who lived with her parents. It must have been terrible for her family.

Well, that was interesting. I've read loads of books on Lucan and she is NOTHING like I ever imagined!

Very interesting that they were both apparently disliked, usually they are made out to be a 'golden couple.'

35 years with no contact is quite a statement!

The 35 years of no contact was telling, but more so was her description of her thoughts about her children, she really didn't like her eldest daughter

This was fascinating. She had some fabulous clothes during her heyday. But what a miserable life. I honestly thought it was Harry Enfield style spoof when started watching (missed the beginning).

Found it quite interesting. What strikes me as very sad is that almost everyone knows of the alleged murderer but hardly anyone can name his victim.

Very interesting that her sister presumed he was gay!

Having finally got to the end, I don't think 'odd' is a very kind assessment.

She seems brutally honest, unsentimental and contained. She reminds me of a certain type of older woman from my childhood. Redoubtable might be the word.

Nobody can dispute that she's a survivor, in any case.

I felt sorry for her, she seems to have been treated as property and had her brain addled. She was very honest about the drugs and the children being better off elsewhere, like she was defeated by it all. Surely these days she would be treated for ptsd and helped to recovery.

I thought she came across as someone who was completely out of touch with reality but so totally ingrained with archaic "upper class" values to the point that they took over any sensible or intelligent discussion.

I felt tremendously sorry for her

She obviously would have been traumatised by the murder and unable with cope with the children. She was drug addled by the sounds of it.
The kids were collateral damage. How do you get over something like that?

I got the impression that she has had a lot of treatment and therapy and come out the other side Queen.

Damediazepam - I've also read lots of books about Lord Lucan and was so surprised seeing her last night. I always imagined her as very quiet and a bit dull but she came across as feisty and articulate last night, although a little odd. She was also much more attractive and glamorous than I thought she would be from pictures I've seen of her in recent years.

The estrangement from her children is very sad, so I suspect there is some of the story that we haven't been told.

She looked disengaged even in the early photos. There didn't seem to be anywhere she is laughing or smiling at her babies/DCs - she looked dopey.

Princess Di's mother married the other Shand Kydd (the older brother to the one on this prog or that is what I have read online). He had had a sheep ranch in Australia which is why (after coming back from Aus) when he got together with FSK they ended up on a sheep farm on a Scottish island ( I think it was).
Di's mother's mother was a very pushy person, a daughter of a colonel (or similar) so not gentry, who became friendly with the Queen Mother at a time when it was not expected that she would become queen. She had married well which got her into the right circles. And contrived the young FSK at 16 to become close to then young Earl Spencer, and then to marry him. She then, as expected of her, produced children until she produced an heir. But was lonely and unhappy stuck in the country at Althorp with a unpleasant and disinterested DH and FIL. Hence the divorce. Her mother and DH insisted the DCs stay with their father.
So much of Diana's probs seem like history repeating themselves.