Hampstead based and a barrister by profession, Oxford educated Lady Bloch is the daughter of suspected murderer Lord Lucan. Asked how she’d describe her father to her son, Bloch told The Scotsman: “I’ll tell Cameron that his grandfather was tall, dark and handsome – a professional gambler who loved powerboating and the Cresta Run in St Moritz”. Of her father himself, she told The Mail on Sunday: “He has never been able to defend himself and the evidence was not conclusive. It was circumstantial”.
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#LORDLUCAN WE DONT KNOW IF HE COMMITED SUICIDE, OR DID END HIS DAYS IN AFRICA, IM SURE WE WILL NEVER NO ?
No s**t Sherlock.
You sound a rather ill educated baron of wherever friesland might be. I don’t think it’s polite to comment when you are so patently drunk
I feel so sorry for her mother. She died alone and none of her children or family were in touch with her. So sad.
Hard to believe a barrister in these circumstances can be so out of touch surrounding the death of lord Lucan.
Nevertheless to come from the stock of a Father who to say the least a peculiar and perverse individual.
Baffling she and the brother air brushed the mother out considering she endured the unimaginable, however myself had a father who had a hatred of me that has always baffled me, so the peculiarity of human nature is one of the deepest mysteries of the Universe, we have to accept that is and will be for most for ever unresolved.