The Lucan affair
Sir: In Mr Chancellor's Notebook (10 November) he quotes me as saying to the Daily Mail 'That's not my husband. My husband is a real aristocrat, he looks like a lord.' I'm surprised that he takes popular newspaper quotations as correct. Has he never heard of licence? I have described Lord Lucan as a Frenchman's idea of what an English milord looks like.
Mr Chancellor assumes that I cling to my pride in the nobility of a man whose behaviour towards me was the very opposite of noble. It doesn't necessarily follow that noblemen behave in a particularly noble manner towards their wives. In any event, most of the time my husband showed me more kindness than anyone else.
If ever an established marriage was damaged by snobbery and envy, it was ours..
Mr Ingrams has described my husband as 'a rather dim old Etonian peer'. How he could be represented as 'dim' and remain undiscovered for over five years surely proves otherwise. That Mr Ingrams also thought it necessary to name his old school suggests a degree of snobbery or what you will.
Veronica Lucan 5 Eaton Row, London SW1
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