Frances: The Tragic Bride (30 page)

Outside the church, flanked by friends and family. Violet Kray is on the extreme left and just behind Reggie are Charlie’s wife, Dolly, and behind her Elsie Shea.

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The wedding reception at the Glenrae Hotel, Finsbury Park.

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Frances and Reggie on honeymoon in Athens – unhappy and tense after the wedding night that never was…

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El Morocco, April 1965: amidst a sea of celebrity-strewn glamour, Frances (far right) stares ahead bleakly. Next to Frances are Reggie’s mother, Violet, and Charlie’s wife, Dolly, with actors Adrienne Corri and Victor Spinetti to the right of Reggie. Reggie, his hand on actor Edmund Purdom’s shoulder, looks at his wife sadly.

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El Morocco, April 1965: unimpressed by actor Edmund Purdom’s attention, Frances reaches for her cigarettes. Newly returned from Athens, she’d already told Micky Fawcett that Reggie hadn’t laid a finger on her while they honeymooned.

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June 1967: Charlie and Reggie Kray leaving St Pancras Coroner’s Court in London after the inquest into Frances’s death.

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July 1997: thirty years later, Reggie’s second wife, Roberta, on their wedding day at HMP Maidstone, Kent.

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Frances’s memorial stone at ‘Kray Corner’, Chingford Mount Cemetery pictured at foot of this page. Her parents fought to have her remains transferred to a different resting place – to no avail.

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The twins’ final resting place. Their legend lives on…

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The gravestone of Frances’s beloved brother Frank Shea.

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The doomed couple today. Frances (played by Australian actress Emily Browning) on her wedding day, and with Ronnie (Tom Hardy, who plays both twins) on the set of
Legend
, the forthcoming film about the Kray twins and their lives during the sixties.

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