Royal Fact Of The Day: On Viscount Linley
FUN FACT: According to his company website, “LINLEY has become known for its imaginative use of wood…”
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December 28th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
My comment is this: why don’t the Royals see to it the scandals never happen in the first place, rather than just use their muscle to cover it all up. I was once told by ‘a source* close to the Royals’ that the Palace had a 30 million pound slush fund to buy people off with, and Philip was costing 3 million pounds a year just on his own! And this was back in 1961, when the pound was worth something.
* the source ran a chain of very exclusive callgirls ‘the landed gentry and nobility for the use of”, many of the girls were themselves from the gentry and could/were often bought by their own relatives for weekend gangbangs during high flying business dealings. You wouldn’t believe some of the things she told me. It’s kept secret, but all of our ‘betters’ are subjects of a worldwide masonic fraternity into black magic and sex rituals. To your face they seem very nice, charming, lucid people, but behind those lace curtains in Belgravia and behind the solid doors to those well-known ‘gentlemen’s clubs’ they all belong to, anything goes.
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November 19th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Well, I’ve been banned from the BBC messageboard for even daring to utter said Viscount’s name! It is all very silly. Perhaps the real truth of this Royal cover up, is that the queen is so worried about all the acusations over the Diana inquest, she knows that one more bit of Royal missbehaviour could turn the UK into a Repulic !
Freddie
November 7th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Surprised it was Linley. Thought it might be one of the ill-starred Worsley family. But who is the MP? Now, where do we start . . .
November 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Daniel Lang Says:
“The conspiracy theorists will be frothing at the mouth by now. ”
Well at least they wont have what “Viscount” had coming out his mouth. Dirty man!!!!
He should be call “Woody Wood Pecker” or maybe he didnt have his teeth in, so we may have to call him “Woody Wood Gobbler” instead!!!
November 1st, 2007 at 7:08 am
27 coolandcalm: lol! The conspiracy theorists will be frothing at the mouth by now. I can imagine the headlines, “Princess Magaret alive?”, “$3million investigation into the death (or was it?) of Princess Magaret”, “Allegedly bisexual Viscount’s mother comes back to haunt him”, and so on.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:12 pm
@Rémy:
Yes… there are various things in the online and offline reports that don’t seem quite right.
Perhaps the bottom, er, line… is: why would Linley risk his job as chairman of Christies International, his marriage and custody of his children, police inquiries into supplying a class A drug, and much else, for a paltry 50 grand - especially since he’s just raised nearly £15m selling off some of the family (and nation’s) heirlooms through his own auction house.
In his position, I’d have quickly paid over, oh, a very small fraction of what I’d just made flogging off the Annigoni portrait of my mum (through my own auction house, possibly to my own sister, who was so furious about the sale she applied to bid on her own behalf).
Then there’s the repeated suggestion that the claims against Linley were only ‘one element’ in the allegations made on the tape. And what’s Linley doing knocking round with royal servants, anyway?
And I think the furniture is overpriced and boring. As with the trophy royal job at Christies, it’s just a way of selling the name he happened to be born with.
And as I say - I would have thought that the name, his main asset, was worth a paltry $50,000 to protect. Good investment.
So what’s REALLY going on?
Please let it be the George Smith tape after all!
PS: why a TAPE anyway? If it’s recent stuff, why on earth would it be on TAPE rather than DISC??????
October 31st, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Here in America we say knock on wood, but it wouldn’t really be the same, would it?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
19, 20 spam script
It’s a misleading choice of words, isn’t it?
The Queen’s “closest family member” would certainly be her husband, Prince Philip, and then Charles. Neither is likely implicated. But then, things do get “closer.”
Who’s next-closest to the Queen? William and Harry, who are next, respectively, in line to the throne after Charles. Some recent “news” reports indicate that the two young alleged extortionists “party” at various London nightclubs in the company of young Royals. And who might these be? William, Harry, Beatrice….
Viscount Linley is a decade or so older than William and Henry, but this doesn’t mean much in terms of partying.
I am suspicious, though, because the amount of money the extortionists reportedly demanded seems shockingly low. I think if I were a repugnant extortionist, I’d instead demand the viscount make me a lovely dining table with twelve chairs and sideboard. It would certainly be worth more than what they asked for….
October 31st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Touch wood
October 31st, 2007 at 8:47 am
I don’t understand… the story was that the ‘victims’s mother contacted the police. If its Linley then how could that have happened?? remote connection from the dead??
Help me out here someone……….
October 31st, 2007 at 7:36 am
If Viscount Linley is innocent , why was an announcement not made in the first place stating he had been the target of blackmailers. Instead his name has been suppressed making him look like he has done something. The press kept is Mum for a while though. How did someone find out in the first place!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:58 am
How can the UK call itself a democracy by letting a powerful family use the law to protect one of its own? Well hard luck Brenda, Linley’s name is already all over foreign websites. Now to see the video… The monarchy draws closer to its end.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:56 am
I suggest their coat of arms be changed to a pink triangle.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:48 am
If there is only the word of mouth by these layabouts, well, Lindley should do his own thing and come out fighting and deny the allegations right now. Why should he protect the Family. On the other hand, he should have known better to do such a thing in a public place.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:17 am
The Australians and New Zealanders have got the story now. We had it in New York yesterday. Always the last to know, eh?
October 31st, 2007 at 4:10 am
Anorak, indeed, the man is said to be a great artist with wood.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:56 am
Whoops… got a bit confused when the spam script test caught me out:
“Senior royals have counselled [Linley] to resist the temptation to go public in an attempt to protect the Queen’s closest family members” - Telegraph
October 31st, 2007 at 3:54 am
“Senior royals have counselled [Linley] to resist the temptation to go public in an attempt to resist the temptation to go public in an attempt to protect the Queen’s closest family members” - Telegraph
…So how would Linley ‘going public’, er, ‘protect the Queen’s closest family members’???
Actually, the sentence in the Telegraph is ambiguous - maybe it’s the ’senior royals’ who are trying to protect themselves by stopping things going public - as in the Burrell trial.
Which brings me back to George Smith again.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:28 am
…but then that would be worth a lot more than £50,000, if Paul Burrell is to be believed…
October 31st, 2007 at 3:26 am
When I hear that allegations about Linley are only one element in the tape, which doesn’t actually show the alleged oral sex by an aide on a royal, but involves a ‘royal servant’ recounting this and other damaging stories about various royals, I have to wonder again whether this might not in fact be the George Smith tape.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:13 am
Why would Viscount Lindley be in Buckingham Palace where there is security! Anyone doing that in there would be taking a huge risk. Isn’t this his own personal business though. He must be bi then. Were there any other bi’s in the Family. Seem to remember something, must look it up. I feel for his wife terribly. The children are probably old enough to suffer taunts at school.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:12 am
ha ha ha ha ha
Brill
October 31st, 2007 at 12:36 am
13 Remigius
How on earth has Lindley got involved with all this. So the blackmailer is gay…so it couldn’t
be a younger member of the family (I was thinking of) thank goodness. The incident was kept under wraps for some time though.
The Family certainly have an interesting history!
October 30th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
12 lyn
I doubt his wife is unaware.
Like I wrote in before, it’s so much more the norm with royalty.
What is different is that British subjects elsewhere (and former British subjects) don’t care about embarrassing their sovereign now. Princess Margaret, the viscount’s late mother, carried on with a married/divorced man for some time before the press published anything on it. Same thing with the Duke of Windsor’s abdication.
The viscount is indeed a great furniture artist. Hopefully, he’ll continue to do the things he does well. The rabble that went after him looks to be a really prurient bunch. Perhaps it’s too much clubbing….
October 30th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Are they sure it is Lindley - he is married and has a lovely wife and children!
Maybe he is taking the flak for someone else! Does the video have actual footage of him. Do hope not as this will be devastating for his wife and family.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I have no idea what you are talking about - the man is an artist with wood
October 30th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Apparently the use of wood in this case was to illustrate the principle that it is better to give than to receive. Not very imaginative, but interesting.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
On drugs?
No, I leave drugs to the Royals.
But that there are gays in the Royal Family, well, it’s been so for many centuries now!
Nope, no drugs. No discos, no wearing Nazi uniforms, no making thousands of nuisance telephone calls to my love rivals, no hunting the King’s deer…..
October 30th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
That’s v. sweet of you to say so Eric.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Remigius, are you on drugs? You’re making very little sense!
October 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
This is “news?” Are you kidding?
I can’t believe that the two lads involved would even try to blackmail someone who’s so rumour-mongered, already.
Gay men are in line for the British throne? I’m shocked, SHOCKED….!!!
And you say they are MARRIED gay men, with children?
I’m shocked, SHOCKED!
Grow up, read a history book already….