[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: British Rights of Hereditary Entailment.

[Shaun Hately]

On 13 Jan 2004 at 23:50, davewitley wrote:

> Shaun Hately wrote:
> 
> > I kept, for some reasons, having 
> > flashes about Lord Lucan while reading it (maybe the references to 
> > gambling away an inheritance, and that lead last night to me 
> > dreaming about Lord Lucan as a wizard tied up with Voldemort... I 
> > need help!)
> 
> "Lord Voldemort's rise to power was marked by unexplained 
> disappearences" - presumably in the seventies.  Shaun, I believe you 
> are onto something.

Heh (-8

So people know what we are talking about - well, I'm sure a lot of 
people do know, but probably not all.

Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan.

On the evening of 7th November 1974, in a terrace house in 
Lower Belgrave Street, London, two women were attacked. They 
were the Countess of Lucan, Veronica Bingham; and the nanny 
to Frances and George Bingham (children of the Earl and 
Countess of Lucan), Sandra Rivett. Miss Rivett was attacked 
first and was killed. Lady Lucan managed to fight off her 
attacker - who she identified as her husband.

Lord and Lady Lucan had separated nearly two years earlier 
and had been engaged in a fairly bitter custody dispute over 
their two children.

Lord Lucan fled the scene of the murder and assault and went 
to a friends house in the country. He spoke to his mother on 
the phone, to the friend he visited, and he wrote a letter 
to another friend, basically claiming he'd been walking past 
the house when he'd seen an attack going on through the 
window - he claimed he'd gone to his wife's assistance, and 
once they'd fought off the attacker, she accused him of the 
attack. He also told his mother he would surrender to police 
for questioning the following morning.

And then he vanished.

The case was a media sensation - initially because of the 
association with the aristocracy, but the murder of Sandra 
Rivett was also very savage - she was literally beaten to 
death with some sort of club. The search for the missing 
Earl made the story even more dramatic - a car he had 
borrowed was found near the coast, with a piece of lead pipe 
wrapped in bandages in its boot - something rather similar 
to the suspected murder weapon. The police obtained an 
arrest warrant for murder - the first time such a warrant 
had been issued against a peer of the realm. As the stories 
went on, information emerged that Lucan had been earning his 
living as a professional gambler - and was heavily in debt.

One of the most sensational parts of the case though, came 
at the inquest into Sandra Rivett's murder - Lady Lucan and 
her daughter were both witnesses and their stories didn't 
match perfectly - no huge discrepancies but enough for 
questions to be asked. And finally the inquest returned a 
rather unusual verdict - legal, but of a type that hadn't 
been returned in recent British history. The verdict was 
'Murder by Lord Lucan'. Basically, without a trial, and 
still technically entitled to the presumption of innocence, 
Lucan was officially branded as a murderer - British law was 
changed shortly thereafter to stop inquest juries returning 
such verdicts.

Since Lucan vanished, there have been many sightings of him 
around the world - some credible, some not. Last year a 
story emerged that he'd been living in Goa, India.

Honestly, my dreams are the product of a warped mind (-8, 
but seriously, I could just about see Lucan as an associate 
of Voldemort if he was a wizard - he was fairly obsessed 
with breeding, was incredibly ambitious (while wealthy by 
any normal standards, he'd spent some time as a child living 
with an extremely rich family - he was evacuated to America 
during World War II, and while he had status due to his 
title, he was relatively unsuccessful compared to his 
forebears (his father, the 6th Earl was a government 
minister, the 3rd Earl was a senior military officer - who 
actually ordered the famous 'Charge of the Light Brigade'). 
I can see a bitter Lucan throwing his lot in with Voldemort.

I've been reading up about Lucan recently - probably why he 
wound up in my dreams. One of the books I read in 'Looking 
for Lucan' by Roy Ranson, the police officer who lead the 
initial murder investigation.

The last couple of paragraphs amuse me - basically because I 
can see someone like Moody wanting to send the same message 
to Voldemort.

"I believe that one of those hidey-holes still holds Lord 
Lucan, and wherever he may be, I have my own personal 
message for the missing Earl.

'Do not relax, my Lord. Keep a watchful eye over your shoulder. 
There will always be someone looking for Lucan.'"



Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
Shaun Hately | www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/thelab.html
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"You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one
thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the 
facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be 
uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that 
need altering." The Doctor - Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
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