It is one of the few things about the film Frances does agree with, despite her family’s constant attempt to turn her against Reggie. He was jailed for murder and spent the rest of his life behind bars, released on compassionate grounds just weeks before he died from bladder cancer in 2000.Īccording to the new film Reggie was driven mad after grief at losing Franie. I’ve read the diaries and I know what really went on, but I think some things should remain private.”įour months after Franie died Reggie stabbed fellow gangster Jack ‘the Hat’ McVitie to death at a party in front of 16 witnesses while high on a cocktail of drink and drugs. “People have been riding the bones of my family for years, selling their stories. Down By The Riverside Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis & Johnny Cash. She says: “How does he know what went on in the bedroom? The only way he could know that was if he was in bed between them, and that never happened! When The Saints Go Marchin' In Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis & Johnny Cash. Real Wild Child Lyrics Well I'm just outta school Like I'm real, real cool Gotta dance like a fool Got the message that I gotta be a wild one (wild, wild child) Ooh, yeah, I'm a. These things happen.”īut Frances bristles with anger over claims made by Freddie Foreman, the Krays’ old enforcer, that Reggie and Franie never consummated their marriage. “He was a ducker and a diver, everyone liked him. “I don’t know what was going on in Reggie’s heart, but my dad was a really good looking guy,” she says. I’ve tried to cling to every happy memory I have of them.”įamily: Frances Shea and her brother Frank (Image: Phil Harris/Daily Mirror)įrances doesn’t dispute the claims that Reggie was gay like his brother Ronnie or refute stories he lusted after her dad Frank Shea, Franie’s brother who acted as the Krays’ driver for a short time. Franie laughed, retrieved the book and we carried on reading. Reggie came to the door and she threw the book across the room and shouted ‘Get out you b******’. “One day I was in bed with Franie and she was reading from my book of Grimm’s fairytales. That came through in some of the things she wrote. They had their blips and towards the end she wasn’t well. She maintains that the rest of Franie’s diaries and letters show the couple loved each other despite their ups and downs.įrances says: “I read Franie’s diaries and I know that she was happy. The couple's relationship has always fascinated Kray experts and extracts from Franie’s diaries, sold last year, reveal how Reggie slept with a flick knife under his pillow and imply he was gay, referring to him as ‘bacon bonce’, cockney rhyming slang for ‘nonce’īut Frances insists those isolated extracts paint a false picture of the marriage. Angry: Frances and her daughter Bonny are upset with how the new Kray film portrays their relative (Image: Phil Harris/Daily Mirror)
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