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Boothby had some powerful allies. At the time, Britain was still reeling from the Profumo affair. The love triangle scandalised Boothby in the eyes of colleagues. I think he found the idea of infidelity too upsetting. Based on the popular podcast, Bad Gays seeks to excavate the buried history of queer lives.

Macmillan resigned as PM on health grounds in It spared him the Boothby saga a year later. It was July and engaging in homosexual acts was a crime at the time. The legal eagle made a series of intimidating calls to then Sunday Mirror editor Cecil King. But their reign of terror ended with convictions for murder in Renowned for their ruthless tactics and violent behaviour, the Kray twins grew up in a poor and violent household.

Kray died in jail in , aged Ronnie was also convicted of murdering George Cornell. Ronnie Kray was largely understood as having more mental health issues and more prone to violence, the brawn behind Reggie’s brains. Edinburgh-born, Boothby was once MP for Aberdeen and parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill from to He was tipped as a future PM but in he embarked on an affair with Dorothy Macmillan — wife of his friend and fellow Tory Harold.

Worried a sensation could harm his prospects, Wilson and a friend hatched a plan. The second. Even fewer knew he had a penchant for attending sex parties with Kray. Devastated Macmillan refused and was so devoted to his wife that he allowed her to live with Boothby for a time.

Cabinet minister John Profumo had an affair with year-old Christine Keeler, who was also seeing a Soviet naval attache. The whole episode affected Macmillan greatly, says writer Smith. But his private life was a mess. But now, for the first time, the full story behind their relationship is laid bare in a book by author Daniel Smith.

Dorothy wanted a divorce. Unlike Reggie (who was rumoured bisexual), Ronnie was openly gay. And that secrecy would be maintained in a cover-up operation which ran to the highest echelons of the Establishment. A former gay lover and prison confidant of Reggie Kray has alleged the gangster revealed his first wife was murdered by twin brother Ronnie.

Police have long suspected that the infamous. Ronald Kray (24 October – 20 March ) and Reginald Kray (24 October – 1 October ) were English gangsters or organised crime figures and identical twin brothers from Haggerston who were prominent from the late s until their arrest in Ronnie and Reggie Kray ran a criminal organisation known as the Firm in East London during the s and s.

They came into Parliament together in and this great betrayal never really ended, with Dorothy and Bob continuing contact until she died in He knighted Boothby in and kept him as a friend, corresponding on political matters for years and years after. Few realised Boothby, a star of right- wing politics, was the other person.

But he hid darker secrets. Few realised Boothby, a star of right- wing. Neither man was named in the story but readers guessed Kray’s identity. It was July and engaging in homosexual acts was a crime at the time. RONNALD ‘RONNIE' KRAY spoke openly about his bisexuality and even "boasted about his affairs" while one of London's most notorious gangsters in the Sixties, a new documentary claims.

Fast-forward to and, after the Sunday Mirror story, a German magazine identified Boothby and Kray. His power as a gangster made him untouchable by conventional homophobia. Glasses in hand, Tory peer Bob Boothby stands with gangster Ronnie Kray in a picture that can finally be fully explained after 56 years.

In this exclusive extract authors Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller dive into the twists and turns of the life of notorious gangster and homosexual, Ronnie Kray. There were fears secrets had been spilled.