Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 5
th, 2014 at 8:50am:
red baron wrote on Jul 4
th, 2014 at 9:24pm:
That poor old hapless wife of Rolf's I don't think she knew what the freak was going on at any stage, smiling wanly as she struggled in each day to support her errant evil husband.
From her daily appearance as a grinning gnome she's obviously quite insane.
Or maybe she was anticipating getting rid of the old bugger and having that multi-million dollar riverside mansion to herself.
And no more him groping her ...
I thought it was more a 'coping' type of smile, through thick and thin. You can remember their mentality of those days, 'must smile and your troubles will seem less troublesome' type thing.
Who knows what story she has to tell from her path, but as she is from the generation of keeping it to themselves, it's unlikely we may ever know, compared to so many in the more modern generation of this day and age of show and tell. (Gerry Springer show comes to mind).
In the earlier decades of peace, free love, blah blah, these types of things were probably then tolerated or kept on the QT. We had the gropers and the wolf whistlers, and the gawkers, and the sexual suggestions...and nothing further would come of it....now, laws are so different and won't tolerate that.
I bet RH thought it was all going to be kept a type of hush hush immunity, the times of his life he did stuff. More so when they are so well known and loved world wide....they tend to think they are like Gods when they get to that level of fame and fortune.
But, as the old adage goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall (from grace).
Pity that Saville creep died before all his offences came out.
I am betting, that many others are going to fall from grace now that this 'whistle blowing' stuff is happening, now that RH has been dealt with by the court of law, and sentenced, others will most likely have the courage to come forth also, since they now may feel the law to be stringent and that they will be taken seriously, rather than brushed aside.
Disappointed I am, as I did love RH's talents, and looking at his photos with his wife and daughter, walking to the courts, I must say, his creativity is still something to be admired
on it's own merits....loved the ties he wore.