Hello and welcome to this episode of Chronicles where today we're going to be talking all about the importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde.

And kind enough to help me with this episode is the office authority on the quires himself, Harry.

Hello there.

Did you know that Oscar Wilde was a frightful quare?

A probable quare. No, definite quare.

A certain quare. Yeah, definitely a No, definite quare. Certain quare.

Yeah, definitely quare. I heard it from the Marquess. Yes. Queensbury. Didn't like the

quares. No, it didn't. It didn't. A very great disappointment that stuff is. But that should be

all the time that we actually have to dedicate to a... Well, just very quickly.

Okay, sure. One of the great tragedies of the Marquess of Queensbury is the time that we actually have to dedicate to... Well, just very quickly, one of the great tragedies of the Marquess of Queensbury

is the fact that not only was his son Alfred Douglas having an affair with Oscar Wilde,

but his other son was rumored to be having an affair with the Prime Minister at the same

time.

And in fact, it's those rumours which some

speculate was the reason the Prime Minister and the English government went so hard against

Wilde was to distract. Oh, really? Classic distraction technique. I did not know that about the other,

yeah. Wow. That's a rough life as a father, isn't it? And again, actually, another interesting fact. This is why I got him here, but another interesting factoid. I did lots of research into this, all right? And the videos, the video's nowhere near to being out yet. The script is done. It will be out sometime within this decade, I think. I have seen the script, by the way. It is real. Thank you.

Thank you, see.

But the other thing was that Alfred Douglas later in life claimed that it was not a

consensual relationship.

Now, this might have been a tactic to try and divert from his culpability in the relationship.

Or who knows? Perhaps he was groomed by Oscar Wilde,

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