The Tragic Life of Britain's Most Famous Fugitive Earl: Lord Lucan

In November of 1974, the Countess of Lucan ran into a Belgravia pub covered in blood, and her family's nanny was found dead in the basement of the house she had just escaped. The man accused of it was Britain's most famous gambling aristocrat, a professional card player who had once been rated among the ten best backgammon players in the world, and who by that autumn had four bank accounts and not a penny in any of them. He drove into Sussex that night, wrote two letters, walked out of a friend's house at a quarter past one in the morning, and was never seen again. This is the full story of how a fortune was lost at a Mayfair card table, why a coroner's jury named an English lord a murderer for the first time in more than two centuries, and how the woman he actually killed came to be forgotten. Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including the Library of Congress and open-license collections on Wikimedia Commons. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. #lordlucan