73. Disappearing Act | Lucky Lord Lucan : Act II

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this second episode, we investigate the marriage, separation and downright ugly court battle of Lord and Lady Lucan. Lord Lucan is very much down on his luck and makes some decisions about how to change his fate.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.combe. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this
0:15.6	podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining
0:23.7	us today as we continue our tale of Lucky Lucan, who probably in 1964 is feeling pretty lucky.
0:32.3	With the passing of his father, the sixth Earl of Lucan in 1964, the times they are a-changing. There are so many ways for
0:42.4	this story to go differently than this story goes. It is in this decade from 1964 to
0:50.4	1974, focusing on the marriage and divorce of the Lucans, as well as a very nasty custody battle
0:58.9	that Lucky Lucan really does make and then seal his own fate and downfall. What do they say,
1:06.8	an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? That is not this episode. Dominic Dunn, writes of
1:14.8	the relationship between Lucky and Veronica, from The Gentleman Vanishes in Vanity Fair, in a story in which
1:22.1	there are many differing opinions on almost everything. There is no one who does not agree that Lord and Lady
1:29.9	Lucan were miserably mismatched. He had gambled almost nightly for 11 years and had lost his
1:38.3	inherited fortune as well as all the money he had won in an early spectacular winning streak, playing Sherman
1:46.2	DeFair at a casino in DeVille, after which he decided to chuck his brief and unremarkable
1:52.6	career in banking, where he is best remembered by former colleagues as a good bridge player,
1:59.4	to take up what Oscar Wilde referred to as the great
2:03.4	aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing. Nothing, that is, except more gambling and taking
2:11.8	most of his meals at the Claremont Club. He played and lost, played and lost, played and lost. The Luchin's fought over
2:21.9	everything, even his Doberman-Pincher's farts, which struck him funny and disgusted her.
2:30.2	Lady Luchin was in the unfortunate position of being disliked by almost everyone.
2:37.7	From all reports, she was not a lot of laughs.
2:41.5	A woman who had invited her to a lady's lunch party in San Maritz after Lucan abandoned her for the backgammon boards.
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