Julie Wheelwright
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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And really what she was after was she was after a man who was going to
pay for a nice flat and pay for her clothes and take her out.
And there was that culture.
It was an entire entitlement of elite men at the time that they could be seen in public and certainly engage in private with mistresses.
Yes, Puccini being one of them.
Yes, and also, she did seem to have a bit of a penchant for officers.
So one of her former lovers had been the Minister of War, so the Minister of War before the war had begun in 1914.
So, you know, she was she was also sort of moving amongst diplomats, but a lot, a lot of men in uniform for some reason.
And yeah, I mean, I don't know, maybe it was a bit of a cocking the snoot at McLeod.
Who knows?
Yeah, I mean, one of the things I was sort of looking into recently was just how much time she spent in Austria and Germany before the war.
I mean, she was the mistress of a very high-ranking German officer before the war.
That relationship had ended, but she did spend a lot of time in Berlin.
She spoke
She spoke German very well.
She's in Berlin when the war breaks out.
Ironically, she's regarded as a foreign enemy because she has spent so much time in France and she's listed Paris as her residence, which indeed it was at the time.
She's really in a difficult position because the German government has frozen her bank account.
She's in Berlin because she's meant to be staging this big comeback.
which was called Profane Vision.
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