The story of Britain's most notorious aristocrat is well known to both people of a certain age and true crime buffs the world over, but here it is viewed through the eyes of the woman he attempted first to drive mad and then murder.
This in-depth interview with Lady Lucan was recorded the year before her death. Herein she describes in graphic detail how having murdered her nanny by mistake her estranged husband battered her over the head with the same blunt instrument but somehow she managed to fight off and temporarily overcome a desperate man twice her size.
We see too previously unbroadcast footage and hear of her terrible suffering of which she manages to make light.
Is he dead? Yes, she believes he committed suicide in the English Channel, an act she calls brave. It wasn't brave, it was decent, probably the only decent thing this worthless son of the privileged ever did in his entire life. But this documentary isn't really about him, rather it is a fitting tribute to a woman tragic and remarkable in equal measure.
This in-depth interview with Lady Lucan was recorded the year before her death. Herein she describes in graphic detail how having murdered her nanny by mistake her estranged husband battered her over the head with the same blunt instrument but somehow she managed to fight off and temporarily overcome a desperate man twice her size.
We see too previously unbroadcast footage and hear of her terrible suffering of which she manages to make light.
Is he dead? Yes, she believes he committed suicide in the English Channel, an act she calls brave. It wasn't brave, it was decent, probably the only decent thing this worthless son of the privileged ever did in his entire life. But this documentary isn't really about him, rather it is a fitting tribute to a woman tragic and remarkable in equal measure.