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Kate Beal Blyth

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The Kray Twins

And what she saw was the glamour.

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The Kray Twins

She saw the fact that the twins were well-known in the area she grew up.

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The Kray Twins

They were fashionable, popular men with money.

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The Kray Twins

And in a time when that counted and that mattered because they'd come out of a period of not having any money and not having any of that glamour because it's East End bombed London.

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The Kray Twins

And they're in a period where people want to be seen with them and people want to be seen with people with money and glamour and celebrity.

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The Kray Twins

I find it very hard to speculate about the Reggie-Francis relationship because everybody has such a different opinion on it.

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The Kray Twins

The question then lies of where does adoration and love become control?

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The Kray Twins

And no one really knows that unless you're in a relationship.

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The Kray Twins

But you hear accounts of him sending a clothes shop with a wardrobe with a rail of clothes to her house so she could choose what she wanted to wear.

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The Kray Twins

She was treated like a princess.

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The Kray Twins

But is that love or is that control?

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The Kray Twins

I'm not sure.

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The Kray Twins

It's hard to know how society's attitude informed Ronnie's behavior because in so many ways, Ronnie lived outside of the law and lived outside of society in the way he operated in his life, in his ethics, how he operated in a legal and illegal manner.

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The Kray Twins

In terms of his sexuality and how society informed that, I don't think we'll ever know.

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The Kray Twins

But I do think what we do know is that it was a really tough time to be a homosexual man in London.

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The Kray Twins

Folklore has it that marrying Francis caused a problem for Reggie with his brother Ron.

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The Kray Twins

There is the theory that Ronnie was jealous of Francis.

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The Kray Twins

Whether that is true, we will never ever know.

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The Kray Twins

And you hear so many different accounts, it's hard to actually find the truth in that.

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The Kray Twins

But logic would suggest that twin relationships are different and special, so therefore marriage into a twin relationship is always going to prove difficult.