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)