Mrs Wilson

I worked with a lady whose husband was tragically killed when on a business trip. When looking through his things she found a photo of a child who looked very similar to their own child. Turned out he had a whole other family in the town he frequently went on “ business trips” to.

Thanks Flora, I will.

If you enjoyed Mrs. Wilson do read " The Bigamist " by Mary Turner Thomson her story is so similar to Mrs. Wilson's . If you subscribe to kindle unlimited it is free to download or you can buy it .

Amazingly, here's another one!!!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6503131/Edinburgh-woman-Mrs-Wilson-style-bigamist-husband-USA.html

Thought this was an amazingly well acted and produced mini-drama. Just loosely based (I imagine) on reality.
Must admit thoughts of basic economies puzzled me. The very nice semi=detached house that Mrs Wilson and her boys lived in, where did the money come to purchase that. No way would have got a mortgage on his earnings as a hospital porter. So, perhaps she bought it outright when her Mother died and left the lovely house up north.
Alec Wilson is said to have been a prolific writer (spy fiction), so surely money must have been coming in from those books all the time. Who received that?
He does seem to have led a Walter Mitty type of life......suppose started off okay, then when he started writing on that typewriter back in the first world war, he started to actually LIVE the fiction he was writing. Then his trip to India confirmed his fantasy life and he never really found reality after that.
Do wonder though how he managed to three times go through bigamous marriage ceremonies.
Fascinating story and at least it seems as if his many children have all been relatively successful in their lives.

The last shot of all his descendents was interesting.. children, grandchildren and great grandchildren I guess!

Now there’s a thought loopyloo!

I was left wondering if the cigarette smoking agent was working for the kgb... ...

He was a prolific writer.
Would the first wife now receive the book royalties?

Whilst in prison someone must have been in receipt of royalty cheques.

I have not heard any interviews so I am left wondering if Alec has made a will.

I always believed that people working or had worked in the Intelligence Service made sure their affairs were in order.

Wikipedia tries to explain the relationships, but I still got confused!

Re getting their names wrong, I expect he addressed each of them as "darling" to sort that! Not sure about all the children though. He must have had a good memory.

Oops of course you are right.
Alec was clearly better at keeping track of his assorted wives and children
Fat lot of use I’d have been as a bigamist!

Complicated isn’t it I wonder if he ever got the names wrong

No, I think it was Dorothy wife no 2 who had Michael.

According to the Radio Times 'Alec married his first (and only legal) wife Gladys in 1916, and she soon gave birth to their first child, Adrian, in 1917. They went on to have two more kids together: Dennis – who is still alive today at the age of 97 – and a daughter, Daphne.'.

Surely Gladys was Wife 1?
Her child was Michael wasn’t he?

sorry, 'environment thought'

It's a bit more complicated than that, Bluebelle.
The environment in which fertilisation takes place has some bearing, with an acid environmentthough to favour sperm which carry the female X chromosome.
So you and PECS are both right.
In a way.

You are quite wrong Pecs it s the Male sperm that determines the gender of a baby

Women have 2X genes and males 1X and 1 Y.

I though Wife one had a daughter??? He did not only make boys... the women he slept with only made boys..it is the women who have the gender decider !

Mrs Wilson: Still searching for the real Alexander Wilson www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46456654
Trisher article on the BBC website - as you say, the family still don’t know the real truth.

The general theme of intelligence and counter intelligence was the same as that of the film 'Allied' which was on TV a few evenings ago. I wonder if that was by accident or design.

Great story and I was left wondering was he or wasn't he? I was quite convinced he was a liar and a fantasist until it flashed up at the end that his file could not be released in 2018 because of "sensitive issues". If he was sacked in the 1940s that seems difficult to believe, but if he was still active in the 50s and early 60s, well it's much more likely. What was he doing as a hospital porter? Investigating trade union links with Russia comes to mind. If so they had completely the wrong end of society Philby &co. were much higher up!

What an incredible story! Yes, the ending was good.