The Execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat: Did the Lord Die Chuckling? When His Grace, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, faced execution on Tower Hill on April 9 1747, he had no idea he would be the last man to be publically beheaded in Britain. Lovat was a Jacobite – a confederate of the forces defeated …
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Alec Guinness and James Dean: The Premonition Alec Guinness and James Dean met by chance in September 1955. Guinness would later claim that he had a premonition that the young actor would be killed in his Porsche 550 Spyder and that he’d cautioned Dean not to get into the car, warning him that he’d be …
The Abraham Lincoln Burial Site While researching the Abraham Lincoln burial site for this post, we were astonished by the multiple exhumations and inspections of Abraham Lincoln’s remains subsequent to his initial burial. In fact, the information we gathered seemed macabre and exaggerated, so we used consulted several sources to verify the details. The sad …
Margaret Thatcher Didn’t Believe She Would Ever Be Prime Minister “I don’t think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.” This was the belief expressed by the soon-to-be Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, during a BBC interview aired on March 7th, 1973. When pressed on whether she would like to be Prime Minister, …
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Thomas Blood and the Crown Jewels of England The story of Thomas Blood and the crown jewels almost beggars belief. Irish-born Blood attempted to commit one of the most audacious crimes in British History – the theft of the Crown Jewels of England. Lieutenant Blood, Captain Blood or Colonel Blood? Thomas Blood was a reprobate …
