Lady Lucan leaves fortune to housing charity Shelter - remember this horrific murder and vanishing

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/14/lady-lucan-leaves-fortune-to-housing-charity-shelter
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Lady Lucan, whose husband famously vanished more than 40 years ago, has left her fortune to a homeless charity after cutting her children out of her will, Shelter confirmed.

Veronica, the Dowager Countess of Lucan, was found dead at home in Westminster in September, after she had been reported missing.

An inquest ruled last week that the aristocrat had killed herself after a false self-diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.

She had three children, Frances, Camilla and George, now the eighth Earl of Lucan, but had severed relations with her family in the 1980s, and continued to decline contact with them right up until her death.

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1. Notice how calmly she spoke about the the way he beat her

with a cane and added that it turned him on. One more 1%er who attended an elite boy's school.

During the ITV programme, Lord Lucan: My Husband, The Truth, she spoke of her depression and her husband’s violent nature after their marriage in 1963. Describing how he would beat her with a cane to get the “mad ideas out of your head”, she said: “He could have hit me harder. They were measured blows. He must have got pleasure out of it because he had intercourse [with me] afterwards”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/27/lady-lucan-found-dead-at-london-home-after-being-reported-missing

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2. That article is truly horrific. Apparently she thought she could not do anthing about the beatings.

Where were her sisters? Did they know nothing about this?

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3. And we wonder how women with no access to wealth and power

deal with violence. Shocking is a mild word for what she experienced.

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4. A veddy proper British mystery.

The Irony of her suicide because of mistaken symptoms.

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5. Self diagnosis is never a good idea

Truly sad but depression is what it is and she sure had enough reasons to be depressed.