Serial conman and “self-styled child prodigy” Alexander Wood posed as the 12th Duke of Marlborough, Lord Jamie Spencer-Churchill to run up bills at London hotels including the Great Northern Hotel in King’s Cross and the May Fair Hotel in Mayfair. A former “international violin soloist” according to court records, this previously jailed fantasist and fraudster from Southend, Essex is most definitely one to steer well clear of.
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Fiddler on the Goof !
Air on a Gmail……….
Us Z listers have our place in life you know; prick us, and do we not bleed
I do not whose string are loose, the imposter or the ones who believed him…no resemblance……