Lady Veronica Lucan death location (3rd May 1947 - 23rd? September 2017)

 

In November 1974 John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan - a dashing but dissolute gambler - mistook his children’s nanny for his estranged wife in the dimly lit basement of their London home and bludgeoned her to death. He vanished and the disappearance has inspired novels, a television series, subway graffiti, litigation, conspiracy theories and scores of sightings. He is assumed to be dead.

 

I met Veronica twice at Eaton Row and she struck me as grounded, self-contained and un-theatrical. You wouldn't think she was a Countess Dowager. No cobwebs fogged that brain. After the murder she moved into a small mews house behind her former six-story home. Sadly it was a sad end for her. Aged 80 she was found dead here on the dining room floor after a worried friend called the police. She'd diagnosed herself with Parkinson's disease having lost her smell and developing a tremor in her arm (not diagnosed by doctors) and then used pills and alcohol to finish herself off. A pathologist said she died of respiratory failure.

 

After chatting to me once she waved me off and then left the house. I stopped nearby to retrieve a biscuit from my bag and saw her pass me. Where was she going? I decided to follow at a distance and she went to the library. Oddly she took the longer route avoiding walking passed her former home. She survived a murder attempt there so it was understandable. In the library she picked a book and settle down at a table. I left thinking I might see her again and was sad when I read in the newspaper that she'd killed herself.

 

There's some photos of the mews house here though after Veronica's death it was refurbished to a high standard.

 

An interview with Veronica here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmV5yTzV9U4

 

 

 

 

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The house after refurbishment...

 

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Lady at home

 

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