#ladylucan

[thehappyhomecook]

Fantastic itv drama, really enjoyed every minute of it. I remember watching it when it first came out. So when I saw it on eBay for £4.00 with free delivery I thought “I’ll have a bit off that!” #aristocracy #aristocrat #lordlucan #earl #earloflucan #lordandlady #ladylucan #lucan #itv #drama #dvd #ebay #lucky #luckylucan

[tyneoconnell]

#Read my article on my dear friend Veronica #ladylucan wife of #lordlucan appeared in the latest edition of #SavileRowStyle she never stopped hoping for a rapprochement with her #children & embodied the very best qualities of the Great #British #Eccentric #rip my irreplaceable friend (at Royal Over-Seas League)

[tyneoconnell]

Once I #love someone, they are in my heart forever where #deathhasnodominion Today like every day, I honour my fallen friends & family; #Quentincrisp #LadyLucan #SebastianHorsley #IzzyBlow #JoshuaCompston - #Eccentrics remind us of life’s precious fragile splendour - @daniellismore @therealpandemonia @plastic_sister (at The National Liberal Club)

[tyneoconnell]

Since the death of #ladylucan last Saturday unscrupulous people with little to no relationship with Veronica, the late Dowager Countess, have given interviews & sold scurrilous stories claiming she’d recently found love at 80, was morbidly obsessed with the past & “bitter” about the estrangement from her beloved children. All utter rot! My precious, sweet funny kind-hearted friend was far from “stuck in the past” Veronica was a vibrant active women as at home at @Grouchos as she was in my StJames private member’s Club overlooking Green Park where she walked everyday to watch the feeding of the precious Pelicans at 2.30; all of whom she knew by name! Recently she had been excited to watch me walking in @londonfashionweek but she had a temperature. If I could use one word to describe Veronica it would be #Eccentric- for she cut a line of her own in everything she did. Determined, mischievous & stubborn, she was also girlish, curious, self-effacing; & a kind woman who took great pleasure in life. Furthermore she not only adored her children but yearned for a rapprochement. The notion that she was eaten away by bitterness is sensationalist tommy-rot! I’d known Veronica over twenty-years & the last few years I’ve spent a great deal of time writing her biography. For far from feeling bitter about her estrangement from her 3 children Veronica never stopped loving them & longed for a rapprochement. My dear friend the feminist feisty #LadyLucan - (a title she never used) had a razor sharp mind, was fulling engaged in the moment & devoted to her causes. Her dearest cause was the preservation of swans - for like myself & #NancyMitford Veronica adored “poultry of all persuasions!” (at Royal Over-Seas League)

[tyneoconnell]

The Dowager #Countess #LadyLucan & I used to giggle about the mischievous methods we employed in managing the overbearing men & women. Veronica was a fan of the hat pin as a weapon against censorious bores & bullies for she had extensive experience with confidence tricksters inveigling their way into her life...and my heart breaks to read of all the “friends” who didn’t know her, selling stories on her since her death...claiming she’d found love & all manner of distasteful calumnies about her & the most sacred & intimate aspects of her life...a life which they know nothing about! I can picture her outrage & while it breaks my heart, Veronica was not one to suffer fools or social climbers. She was not trapped in the past, nor did she hate her children. There’s no truth in being an eccentric if you can’t accept the world will disappoint you & break your heart. Lady Lucan the #dowager #countess was a true #eccentric & the world broke her heart, yet neither the tragedies or disappointments of her life shook her unwavering love for her children. (at Mayfair)

[tyneoconnell]

There is something of the pathos of #oscarwilde about my beloved friend #ladylucan story for like Veronica, Oscar toppled a god of the #aristocracy – & was shunned & punished for his audacity. Like Wilde, Veronica was shunned & maligned for daring to seek justice for her nanny. After her husband #LordLucan was charged with the nanny’s murder, Veronica became a pariah of her class & like Wilde she never saw her children again...in Veronica’s words, they traded their own mother in... for a more congenial holidays & lifestyle with their Aunt & Uncle. Yet despite all the slings & arrows Veronica endured in her life, the #Eccentric Dowager Countess continued to cut a line of her own in the shadows…her long hair coiffed, her pale skin & gentle precise movements reminiscent of a tiny medieval queen… as she wafted unnoticed through Belgravia to feed the pelicans in Green Park every day at 2.30. A vision from another age preserved in aspic… Veronica in death as in life remains utterly captivating; a sacred tabernacle of unholy secrets from another era. Perhaps now the time has finally come to reveal the truth behind this extraordinary Eccentric whom, like all who dare to topple the Gods of the Male Establishment are maligned & derided? (at Royal Over-Seas League)

[tyneoconnell]

#rip #mydearfriend #veronica #ladylucan my #feminist #icon growing up #friend #fellow lover of #pelicans #swans & ducks I’m writing your memoir & through that I’ll keep your memory alive! Honourable Honest & True you maintained the old fashioned values of honour & kindness even after the world betrayed you & let you down. XXX (at Royal Over-Seas League)

[tyneoconnell]

The #inkyscribe enroute to @theconnaught #veronica #LadyLucan & @vip_pom (at Mayfair)