and his stepson was killed in a car crash a few weeks later. He retreated to the flat he had shared with Phyllis and barely left it for months. He took to wearing her old clothes, immersed himself in the study of psychology, biology, history, mysticism and other subjects, and over the next few years mutated into Dr. Charlotte Bach (while she also had a sideline for a while working as a dominatrix named Daphne Lyell-Mansell). When the truth about Charlotte Bach was revealed after her death, most of her supporters were genuinely astonished, but many were also amused. After all, she had only been putting her theories into practice.
the Soviet Invasion of Hungary in 1956, Count Hajdu founded the Committee for the Assistance of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, which raised £2,000 in donations. When it became clear that he had pocketed most of this money, Count Hajdu bowed out, and Hajdu adopted a new identity, Michael Karoly, and a new career as a goatee-bearded psychologist and hypnotherapist. Despite his lack of qualifications, he was quite successful in his new career. He wrote a column for a monthly magazine and a book on hypnosis. At one point he arranged an interview with ? Alexander Thynne, who received him at Longleat. The future Marquess of Bath wasn’t at all pleased when a newspaper reported that the interview had been part of a pioneering study Karoly was undertaking into the psychology of the peerage, and refused to have anything more to do with him. Kajdu’s relationships with other women took a heavy toll on his marriage, and he was also secretly dressing as a woman. He separated from his wife during the early sixties, and started up a group called Divorcees Anonymous, the main purpose of which seems to have been to attract lonely women whom he could seduce. He was nevertheless devastated when Phyllis died suddenly in 1965
BACKHOUSE, SIR EDMUND (1873 –1944) Fantasist Backhouse was born into a family of Quaker high achievers — his father was a director of Barclay’s Bank and one of his brothers became First Sea Lord of the British navy. He studied at Oxford but failed to graduate, and ran up huge debts which forced him to leave England. He went to China where his remarkable facility for languages led to a job translating for George ‘Chinese’ Morrison, the Times correspondent in Beijing. In 1910, having gained a reputation as 14