Well.
There's certainly nothing of the subtle about ye old timey newspaper reporting.
Well.
There's certainly nothing of the subtle about ye old timey newspaper reporting.
Lady Ann was, from all contemporary accounts, a very nice, kind person.
She was the first female of the species to enroll at the Uni of Sydney School of Veterinary Science, and she continued her vet practice right up until her death.
An odd death; she'd not long separated from her husband, a fierce gate-keeper of everyone's morals who was busy banning books, plays, films all over the shop whilst his pile of Playboys kept his desk drawer cosy.
Sir Arthur Rylah was definitely punching above his weight, such a shame his wife was cremated so quickly without an inquest. It left people wondering, and an inquest could have easily answered so many questions...
Further reading -
Lady Chatterley and Alexander Portnoy: Narrowing the Limits of Censorship in Australia
Molly met and married Marthanda Bhairava Tondiman in a whirlwind romance in Australia in 1915.
Although welcomed by the people of Pudukota, there was some question of Molly being poisoned, alongside the rudeness of the British Govt who refused to recognise her title, nor later would they recognise their son as heir to the principality.
Another Royal love story, Netflix...!
Further reading -
The Indian Royal who gave up his throne to marry an Australian socialite
Well, here's another garden variety arsehole; convicted of one murder Burns confessed to the hangman he'd killed seven more people.
Why confess to the hangman? Is it an attempt to impress a bloke who's paid to kill people for the government?
Anyway, the seven further victims are based on speculation; although the useless mongrel gave clues he didn't give names (said he was useless) but this is well-considered with much evidence.
Further reading -
HH Princess Melikoff was born as Pauline Curran into a Tasmanian family that benefited greatly as part-inheritors of the Tattersall's fortune.
When Pauline was old enough to do as she pleased - this was when her father had passed away and she was allegedly past her first bloom of youth *ahem* - she found herself a handsome Russian aristocrat Prince Maximilian Melikoff and put on a Royal Wedding in Hobart in 1926 where police had to halt traffic for three hours.
Again, Netflix, here's a true Royal wedding story.
Princess Melikoff established a trust fund on her death which supports marine conservation and rescues of stranded marine mammals.
Further Reading -
Serial killer Frank Butler aka Richard Ashe was a garden variety prick; he's been incorrectly labelled "Australia's First Serial Killer" - nah, plenty of those mongrel bastards came before Frank.
It was Australia's First Serial Killer MANHUNT.
Gutless mongrel; he shot his victims in the back after he'd got them to dig their own graves.
Plenty all over the net about this piece of vile canker.
His victims were
Arthur Preston
Charles Burgess
Further details -
We don't often connect Aussies with Royalty - unless they're claiming to be Richard III's 14th generation granddaughter... - but there have been plenty of times Aussie-born ladies have caught the eye and hearts of Royalty.
Today is a quick run-down on Joan Falkiner, whose real life romance with Taley Muhammed Khan, Nawab of Palanpur, out-did any Barbara Cartland novel =
They met while he was recovering from a polo injury resulting in a real-life elopement to another country against her wealthy parents wishes to a man much older than herself, of a different religion, with a living first wife, a son her same age, scorned by the British (yeah, looking at you, Mountbatten!) denied her rightful title until the last.
Seriously, Netflix, this is oozing more romance than some of your latest offerings...!
Her granddaughter, Aaliya Suntana Babi is a celebrated Paleontologist known as "Dinosaur Princess".
Further reading -
1773 Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, namesake of Brisbane aka Party Town Bris-Vegas, was found in the cabbage patch. 1888 The South Coast R...