‘The timing is coincidental’ … Jeremy Thorpe’s biography. Though homosexuality was commonplace among the upper classes at that time, none of Jeremy’s school friends detected any overt signs of homosexuality in his early flamboyance. Ursula was an extremely domineering woman who also had several close relatives who were homosexuals. My research has also led me to believe that Thorpey was bisexual, while his two brothers were practising homosexuals. Jeremy was born in 1929, the son of Ursula and Thorpey Thorpe, neither of whom had quite as much money or talent as the other believed. Any delay that might have occurred was entirely due to my publishers’ tireless and painstaking search to find a senior member of the Liberal Democrats who was willing to write a foreword paying tribute to the man most responsible for reviving the political fortunes of the Liberal party in the 1960s and 1970s. My publishers have since assured me that the timing is coincidental and in no way connected to legal matters that may have arisen had Jeremy been alive. I t was with great surprise that I discovered Jeremy Thorpe had died just days before my book was rushed to the printers, though the manuscript had been completed some 20 years earlier.
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