Kate Beal Blyth
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She saw the fact that the twins were well-known in the area she grew up.
They were fashionable, popular men with money.
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.
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.
I find it very hard to speculate about the Reggie-Francis relationship because everybody has such a different opinion on it.
The question then lies of where does adoration and love become control?
And no one really knows that unless you're in a relationship.
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.
But is that love or is that control?
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.
In terms of his sexuality and how society informed that, I don't think we'll ever know.
But I do think what we do know is that it was a really tough time to be a homosexual man in London.
Folklore has it that marrying Francis caused a problem for Reggie with his brother Ron.
There is the theory that Ronnie was jealous of Francis.
Whether that is true, we will never ever know.
And you hear so many different accounts, it's hard to actually find the truth in that.
But logic would suggest that twin relationships are different and special, so therefore marriage into a twin relationship is always going to prove difficult.