john brown, queen victoria
‘But what could have happened was that the King ordered the payments to continue after his death in 1910, to prevent a scandal involving his mother.’But if that were the case, would Edward VII, a serial adulterer, who ordered all his private papers, and those of his long-suffering wife, Queen Alexandra, to be destroyed after their deaths, have been careless enough to leave a document lying around in the Royal Archives proving that his mother made a scandalous mésalliance with a foul-mouthed Highland drunkard?Then we have to consider the reliability of the original source of this story.Albeit a respected historian, Sir Steven Runciman was one of the Queen Mother’s ‘knitting circle’ of elderly gay bachelors — a notorious eccentric and supremely mischievous.One of his earlier pranks was to drip burning candle-wax onto the bald patch of the outraged Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who was seated below him.
It was Princess Margaret who took it upon herself, in her mother’s absence, to destroy the inflammatory cache.But there is one aspect of the outrageous claims about Queen Victoria that has undeniable truth.Possibly as a result of some hormonal imbalance, Queen Victoria possessed a voracious sexual appetite bordering on nymphomania.Her chosen husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, was a sensitive and somewhat effeminate 18-year-old virgin when Victoria surveyed his shapely legs in sexy skin-tight breeches.Suspected of latent homosexuality, Albert, on being asked why he had never sown his wild oats with women, replied: ‘That species of vice disgusts me.’But the Queen, three months his senior, was determined to marry him, and proposed after a courtship of only four days.From their marriage night onwards, Victoria was the sexual aggressor and pursuer of the two. She was aware how often spurious communications followed the death of a public figure. Victoria flatly refused to allow her government to legislate against lesbianism, not because she approved of it, but because she regarded it as a physical impossibility.The old lady, whose best-known utterance was ‘We are not amused’, went to her grave labelled as the ultimate prude.But now an astonishing article, published this month in The Oldie magazine, seeks to explode this greatest of all royal myths.It claims that after the untimely death of her husband, Albert, the Prince Consort, Victoria sought sexual solace with her uncouth, arrogant and heavy-drinking Highland ghillie, John Brown. She was soon referring to the hirsute Highlander as ‘fascinating Johnny Brown’, and the shocked Foreign Secretary, the Earl of Derby, recorded that they slept in adjoining rooms ‘contrary to etiquette and even decency’. This medium was ‘the boy who used to carry my (Albert’s) gun at Balmoral'.
And a second ‘daughter’, Louise Brown, was also ‘sent to live in Paris’, where, according to John Stuart, who was formerly employed by the royal bankers, Coutts & Co., she was sent £250, ‘paid once a quarter’.Stuart added: ‘The money was debited in the account marked “His Royal Highness Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales”.‘At the time I thought she must have been one of King Edward VII’s children from the wrong side of the blanket,’ he said — and indeed, she well may have been. Ponsonby got hold of Brown’s private dairies and destroyed them. Perhaps they are lazy. Then click "follow", below. While studying at Cambridge, he was one of Cecil Beaton’s first models, who photographed him with a budgerigar on his finger.A friend of the Soviet spy Guy Burgess — never a recommendation of trustworthiness — Runciman dabbled in the occult, read Tarot cards for the King of Egypt and confessed in old age that he fancied the idea of marrying an elderly Spanish duchess so that he might become known as a ‘dowager duke’.Lord Norwich evidently regards him as a credible witness.
John Brown (8 December 1826 – 27 March 1883) was a Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years. The first thing to say is that The Oldie’s story is very, very old indeed.Rumours of this supposed liaison, marriage and pregnancy have been around for almost 150 years. Eventually the story leaked out until it was made public by the popular British journalist, Hannen Swaffer , who was also a Spiritualist. The voice phenomenon produced by Lees was instantly recognisable as that of the late Consort. Begg’s Best was their preferred tipple. His final message to her assured her that another medium had been chosen to keep the line of communication intact.
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