![]() John Amery was a disturbed English eccentric with a passion for fast cars, fast women and grand hotels, who carried his teddy bear with him at all times. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India in Winston Churchill's Cabinet, immediately called Downing Street to speak with the Prime Minister, a childhood friend, who assured him that he would not be blamed for "the aberrations of a grown-up son". With the understatement of the British upper classes, they described listening to their son as a "miserable ordeal". We can only imagine the shame felt by Leo and Bryddie Amery as they heard their Harrow-educated first-born address "Mr Brown, Mr Jones, you Mrs Smith" with a fascist diatribe, just as the infamous traitor Lord Haw-Haw had done before him. ![]() ![]() Born troublemaker: John Amery with his prostitute wife Una Wing ![]()
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