Hallie Rubenhold

And her father, who had some...

And Forsyte, he was quite progressive, which is pretty amazing for a Victorian man, decided that his children were going to make something out of their lives in the way that he had because he was a railway clerk.

And it meant that he had a slightly better life than everyone who came before him who were agricultural labourers.

And so he took his kids to London.

He took his family to London.

And he put his daughters into secretarial college, which was, as I said, quite progressive for the 1890s.

And it allowed Ethel and her sister to enter into white collar work.

They didn't have to be shop girls or domestic servants or work in a factory.

By this means, they were able to make what was believed that they would be able to make good marriages.

Ethel was, I hate to use this term, but she was very avaricious.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a better quality of life, which she did want.

But even her parents described her as very materialistic, quite covetous, quite secretive, quite jealous.

And all of these things kind of turn up later in life when she's with Crippen.

And I think, to be honest, the two of them bring out the worst in each other as well.

And it was a kind of perfect match.

Really, if he had never met Ethel, Belle Elmore would have died of natural causes, I'm sure of it.

Yeah, he did.

I mean, this was some weird thing.

You know, Crippen was a homeopathist.

And first of all, Ethel was a hypochondriac.