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Douglas's eldest brother Francis Viscount Drumlanrig died in a suspicious hunting accident in October 1894, as rumours circulated that he had been having a homosexual relationship with the Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery, and that the cause of death was suicide.
Oct 14, 2016 · Wilde addressed De Profundis to his lover and betrayer Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, pictured here with Wilde (Credit: British Library Archive, Oscar Wilde Collection Items)
…he met Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, who encouraged him to embrace his homosexuality. He was recalled to France because of his mother’s illness, however, and she died in May 1895. Read More
Oct 4, 2021 · Threatened with blackmail in 1893, over a stolen letter that he had written to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde responded by having its contents translated into French and published as a...
Jul 18, 2000 · But 20-year-old Douglas Murray, who is ending his second year at Magdalen College, Oxford, thinks that Lord Alfred, who died in 1945, has gotten a bad rap. Mr. Murray is the author of...
BOSIE AND OSCAR. Lord Alfred Douglas aged 62 Photo: E. Pannell. his works and cross-check as much as possible to distinguish the facts from the bitter rhetoric.
And the object of the poet's self-destructive passion, Lord Alfred Douglas, became a Catholic in 1911 and remained firm in the Faith until his death, though his later writings betray a conservatism that is distasteful and uncharitable.
