While serving as a colonel in the Western Desert during the war, conceived and set up Soldier magazine, which remains the Army's official monthly publication. Died aged 90 in a retirement home near Bognor Regis, West Sussex.Īnglo-Irish journalist. Thrice-married, his son said he 'was active until nearly the end, fishing and writing'. Having retired as a lawyer, Eddowes ran the Bistro Vino restaurant chain. To test his theory, Eddowes brought a legal suit to exhume the body of Oswald's supposed 'impersonator' - which took place in Texas in 1981. Johnson, covered up the involvement of the KGB so as to prevent a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He also claimed that Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. He was nearly 60, but he certainly was interested and wanted to set me up in a flat in Regent's Park.'Īfter two of her other lovers got in trouble with the law, she sought legal advice from Eddowes.Īnd pursuing a second 'miscarriage' of justice, he wrote The Oswald File, arguing that a Soviet agent impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald was the real assassin of U.S. The man at the heart of the scandal, society osteopath and pimp Stephen Ward, had also introduced Eddowes to Keeler in 1962, and he fell in love with her.Īs Keeler later revealed: 'I kept my date with Michael Eddowes, but he was far too old for me. His book The Man On Your Conscience, helped Evans receive a posthumous pardon from the Queenĭeeply involved in the Sixties Profumo scandal, in which Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigned when it emerged that a call girl he had been seeing, Christine Keeler, was also sleeping with a Soviet naval attache. The lawyer, author and restaurateur was fascinated by the case of Timothy Evans, hanged in 1950 for the murder of his daughter. The case played a key role in the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in Britain.
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He argued that the real culprit was serial killer John Christie and his book was partly responsible for Evans receiving a posthumous pardon by the Queen. He published The Man On Your Conscience, an investigation into the story of the infamous murder at 10 Rillington Place in London. Fascinated by the case of Timothy Evans, hanged in 1950 for the murder of his daughter. He drifted apart from Philip soon after the Royal Wedding and died of a heart attack aged 50. Winners paired off with the women for sex in the luxury bedrooms. He married twice, first to American divorcee Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, then to model Janet Mercedes Bryce.īy the mid-1950s, he was hosting sex parties at his Grosvenor Square flat for carefully chosen male guests.Įvenings began with card games called 'Chase The Bitch' and 'Find The Lady'. Both served in the Navy and, as bachelors after the war, drove around London in an open-top sports car, carousing to dawn.īut, while Philip buckled down to work after marriage, Milford Haven continued partying.īoth served in the Navy but drifted apart from Philip soon after the Royal Wedding and died of a heart attack aged 50 ġ David, MARQUESS OF MILFORD HAVEN (1919-70) Here are the stories of the men who made up the Thursday Club. On the menu was also printed a verse by Dr Samuel Johnson - 'Marriage is the best state for a man in general and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. (Today, the Belfry Club houses chef Anton Mosimann's private dining club.) The group dined on foie gras, turtle soup, mixed grill and crepes suzette. Philip Mountbatten, Royal Navy, who is to be married on 20th November 1947'. In honour of Philip's Naval career, it was headed 'Dinner to Distant Country Member Lieut. This photo of one of his last nights as a bachelor re-emerged only recently - with a seating plan and menu illustrated by one of the stags, Feliks Topolski. Sadly for 96-year-old Philip, it is believed that none of the men in this photo is still alive and thus able to share his joy this week on celebrating his 70th wedding anniversary. Interestingly, considering the sometimes fraught relationship the Royal Family has had with the Press, many fellow guests were major figures in the newspaper world.
Among several traditions established by members was one in which a speaker would remove his trousers to keep the attention of a yawning audience.
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