http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Monday_Clubhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/6921516/Prince-Philip-James-Robertson-Justice-and-the-sex-that-was-too-hot-to-handle.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-496093/Why-wont-Queen-honour-Philips-starlet-Pat-Kirkwood.htmlhttp://ruthellis-the-truth.blogspot.co.uk/In the spring of 1969 Ruth’s widowed mother, Berta Neilson, was found unconscious in a gas-filled room in her flat in Hemel Hempstead; she never fully recovered and did not speak coherently again.
Ruth’s sister Muriel Jakubait found her mother’s handbag, tucked away in a chest of drawers. In it was a small, tatty notebook-cum-address book (now kept safe in a bank vault). Muriel had wondered for years about the names in it.
The notebook tells a revealing story of its own.
Phone numbers and addresses of Berta and Arthur Neilson’s friends, also notable journalists of the time Peter Grisewood, Jimmy Reid and Duncan Webb and other contacts that she’d scribbled in fifty years ago, became important clues.
One London address in Kensington stood out.
After months of research and trawling through electoral registers and directories I realised I hadn’t just found a safe house, I’d found a safe street! I’d uncovered a treasure-trove of spies’ addresses – all in the same Kensington street - some dating back to 1932. As far as I am aware, they have not previously been made public.
http://copperknob.wordpress.com/2012/08/ All the big names in spying were there: Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Menzies, Cowgill, Sinclair, Footman, Burke Trend ……
It strikes me as strange, that Ruth Ellis’s mother had this address in her notebook 50 years ago. Had she discovered the shady world in which Ruth was involved?Or was this interesting evidence just another coincidence?
An early draft of RUTH ELLIS, MY SISTER’S SECRET LIFE contained this information, but our publishers felt it was complicated and the whole section was dropped.
When I began ghost writing Muriel Jakubait’s autobiography I intended to find the truth about her sister Ruth. I hope in these articles and in our book I have at least begun to set the record straight.
