Lucan.., Did Anyone

[Butterbun]

watch this? Very good acting and the story told very well.

[hc4361]

I very much enjoyed it but with a tinge of guilt. I couldn't help thinking what his family, and the nanny's family, feel about it.

[Butterbun]

There's never a good time to rake these things up, lots of loose ends left untied.

[giveup]

I thought it was excellent,but a bit of a hatchet job !!!

[pips1]

I looked Lady Lucan up online and it said she was now estranged from her children, I wonder why? She never remarried and looked a frail, lonely lady. Her son apparently was happy with the programme but her youngest daughter who I think is a lawyer wasn't.

[tamborine]

It reminds us it wasnt so long ago when women had far less security (unable to get mortgages) and lost custody of children on husbands whim. Just shows how far weve moved on.

[hc4361]

Tambo, she could have got a mortgage if she had an income of her own and she had automatic custody of the children, which is why Lucan went to extremes to have her declared insane so that the court would award custody to him.
When she played clever and admitted herself to the Priory she proved she was sane and got custody back.
Lucan didn't want to divorce her because she would have been awarded the house at least until the children grew up and custody of the children, which is why he tried to kill her.

She is probably estranged from the children because they don't believe he murdered the nanny and she believes he did.

[retrocop]

Excellent acting.I almost wanted to top Lucan myself.What pompous arrogance of the man."The court must believe me aspers.I'm an earl"

[ladybirder]

Very good programme. Sad everyone always talks about the Lucans and not poor Sandra Rivett. That must be very hurtful to her family. We've got another episode to come haven't we?

[jomifl]

It appears that a lot of Lucan's clique know exactly where he is or was but closed ranks to protect him. The evidence against him is as conclusive as evidence ever gets but his mates wated to believe him and if you can't believe an Earl who can you belive. What a shower!

[tamborine]

Wrong hc4361, Lucan didn't have grounds for divorce (adultery). In the 60s there was little financial or SSecurity help for nil income mothers. Wife Veronica Duncan was a model when they met. Women only acquired property with sufficient purchase or by inheritance. Women were merely 'chattels' and had few rights then.

[tamborine]

Pips, I think the kids are estranged because they chose the alliance with MILaw who hated Lady Lucan. I 'blue blood' loyalty similar to Diana v HRH

[jomifl]

Lucan tried to murder his wife too but she knee'd him in the groin and ran away. She recognised him, after all he was her husband.

[Baldric]

As an aside,
When my OH (before we met) bought her first nearly new car she noticed that in bright light there was a lot of 'sparkly silver dust' all over the dash and door panels, when she received the Logbook the previous keeper was Sandra Rivett, the sparkly bits were fingerprint dust.

[hc4361]

This is interesting

http://www.ladylucan.co.uk/index1.htm

[viv38]

That's interesting Baldric.

I enjoyed this and can't wait for the conclusion.

[EdmundD]

Was the fact that he picked the wrong night i.e. nanny changed her night off, true? I don't remember that being said at the time. Very good though, will efinitely watch Part 2.

[hc4361]

EdmundD - how could anyone know? This is a dramatisation where they've filled in the gaps.
He would have had no reason to kill the nanny, unless he intended to frame his wife for it.

[netibiza]

In that statement Lady Lucan claims that she and the nanny were on formal terms so do not think that Sandra and she would discuss Lord Lucan let alone allow the nanny to shout F*** off down the phone.

[ladybirder]

It is true that the nanny changed her night off and that is how he murdered the wrong person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan#Sandra_Rivett

[Butterbun]

Looking forward eagerly to part two next week.