Ingleby Mackenzie, Colin

From Lord Lucan

Lady Lucan's verdict on 2/3/2005

Colin Ingleby Mackenzie who takes a rather large part in this film was not a gambler. He was a cricketer and worked in insurance or something similar. He pretends in the film that he participated in the gambling exploits of my late husband's gambling associates but he didn't. He occasionally played golf with my late husband at weekends and I cannot recall that we ever had dinner with him. (He is one of those nauseating "I'm one of the boys" type men). He then goes on to describe my late husband as being popular at Eton which he wasn't. He made very few friends at Eton. It is a huge school and it is possible to be at the school at the same time as someone else but not know them at all unless they were in your House at Eton.

Ingleby Mackenzie then says that my late husband was chasing his losses at the gaming tables after the custody case. (Not divorce case!) At least Ingleby Mackenzie does agree that my late husband made "a complete bog of it".

He also says that my late husband was "mad about his children". Well, I think one should consider this in the light of what transpired later. It is an earl's main function to raise the next generation and I think his position was very well put by John Aspinall who said during one of his interviews (not on the programme) that "He loved his children not as you or I would love our children but as his descendants".