Mary Wilson

No probs Anniebach

Sorry my fault Maw.

Mary Wilson would have been the last person to regard herself as part of the Establishment.
I had perhaps hoped that others might have their own opinions/insights to share on other examples of the “woman behind the man”

Entirely off topic, but if I may.
When DD was gong to be confirmed I overheard her on the phone to a friend saying “Mum says there will be cake throwing in the church hall afterwards”
I was using it here in the GN sense.
too precious to throw!

I was surprised to hear that Mary Wilson was still alive, she wrote poetry I think? I was just a child during the Wilson days, but remember talk of Harold's alleged relationship with Marcia Faulkener. Despite all this, Mary Wilson showed dignity and I hope she was happy in her long retirement. Not wishing to hijack this thread, but anniebach is right, there was talk of Boothby, and 'rough trade'.

And who exactly is that post aimed at MB? All of us on this thread? Perhaps you shouldn’t have made the point about ‘life seemed more straightforward’. I rather think the issues brought up here are a little bit more than a political bunfight but yet another example of how the powerful, the upper classes, the well connected made a mockery of the justice system in this country.

If you're looking for a fight I'll argue with you that a 'bunfight' was schoolboy slang for a tea party!
Maybe we should all have a virtual tea party - oops, just remembered that's what Soops Kitchen is. Oh well.
RIP Mary Wilson.

RIP Mary Wilson

Is it fair to hijack a thread about Mary Wilson?
(Oh let’s have another political bunfught shall we? )

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11948323/lord-boothby-sex-parties-ronnie-kray-mi5-documents.html

Here we are - don’t the powerful and upper classes get looked after so well?

Yes I remember Lotd Boothby but never heard that rumour (or fact) that’s a bit of a shocker

Boothby I'm well aware of. It's the Kray brother I'm asking about.

Yes Maizie ? . Surely some here remember Boothby ?

Good God, Ab! That piece of gossip has just sent my eyebrows shooting round to the back of my head. A Kray brother?
Is this verifiable fact?

RIP Mary Wilson

Just as McMillian was viewed , yet his beloved wife Dorothy was in a relationship for years with Lord Boothby who was bi sexual and was also in a relationship with one of the Krays. Now the press would have disclosed all this.

I totally agree it just made me smile how easily we can cross over with some information positive/negative, negative/positive ?

Good point BlueBelle but Harold Wilson with his pipe and Gannex mac seemed a safer pair of hands than any these days- on whichever side.

Reminded of days when life seemed more straight forward and yet we ve both been in another thread talking if the conspiracies and complexities of life in that era with Thorpe and band ?

A great age, 102 I think. Yes I remember her, I was a young woman, she was elderly, now I am elderly, such is life. RIP Mary.