Lucan

[naomi24]

ITV. Starring the superb Rory Kinnear as Lord Lucan. I watched the first of the two episodes and was not disappointed. Excellent. A breath of fresh air.

I wonder if anyone knows what happened to him?

[Peter Pedant]

// Don’t worry about it, Jackdaw. We all make mistakes.//
yeah um
like Ld Lucan mistaking the nanny for his wife!

only the fishies in the channel know.
the prog I saw, had him on the channel ferry and him jumping off half way. Estate was a terrible mess as no one cd do anything whilst he was alive and missing 1974-1990s

Lucky Lord Lucan as they called him was more correctly terribly unlucky Lord Lucan and had large gambling debts ( not enfrceable at law)

[gingejbee]

Just to clear one thing up...this two-parter was first shown in December 2013.

[Gromit]

They reckon he was fed to the Lions at Longleat.

[Gromit]

Fed to a tiger at Howletts zoo.

[Spicerack]

Whichever, it's a cat way to go.

[Barsel]

I was disappointed, felt it was slow and drawn out.
How can they write an ending if nobody knows what actually happened to him?

[Jackdaw33]

Given that he could not have remained alive incognito for so long it is fair to assume that he either committed suicide or was bumped off. This drama explores the second of those possibilities.

[douglas9401]

Woman living in glass house denies throwing stones. :-) x

[naomi24]

That’s because she didn’t, Douglas.

I’ve never heard the theory that he was fed to tigers at the zoo.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - // I wonder if anyone knows what happened to him? //

The short answer is yes - several people will know / did know what happened, but obviously the secret has been successfully kept all these years.

I don't think it's an exageration to say that if you want some skullduggery kept quiet, the upper classes are the ones with form, and the ones to go to for taking secrets to their graves.

[New Judge]

***Spoiler Alert***

Apparently he spent a couple of years living in a caravan in Winchelsea but had to leave when the local authority realised it was being occupied all year round (which was against the rules). He hot-footed it to the Scottish Highlands where he briefly ran a shortbread factory near Ardlui. He then spent a couple of years in Switzerland before returning, disguised as Walter Swinburn, to ride Shergar to victory in the 1981 Epsom derby. He was last seen running a bar in Torremolinos.

All this – and much, much more – will be revealed in Episode 2. :-)

[Jackdaw33]

You forgot the bit where he briefly went into partnership with Elvis and opened a chippy in Lancashire.

[New Judge]

Didn't want to spoil it entirely for our readers, jd! :-)

[ladybirder]

This is quite an interesting read Naomi.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/113261497/how-hidden-letters-shed-light-on-the-lord-lucan-murder-mystery

[eve1974]

The upper class hoi-poloi are masters at crime and deceit. That wld easily include either smuggling him safely away or murder.

Sure there are some still alive out there that know the truth but us mere serfs will never know

[bobbinwales]

⁹^ whose that yo hillier? No one posted at that time did they?

[bobbinwales]

Gulliver not hillier. Sillier would of been closer lol

[naomi24]

Thanks LB. intriguing isn’t it.

I don’t go with the fed to the tigers theory. That means someone would have killed him - but why would they?

[Jackdaw33]

Perhaps he knew too much.