Sunday, 1 March 2020

JAMES RHODES - CHILD ABUSE REFORM IN SPAIN


James Rhodes.

British pianist James Rhodes drives child abuse reform in Spain

Spain is about to 'completely overhaul' its system of protection against child sexual abuse.

This is largely due to a campaign by British pianist and Madrid resident James Rhodes.

James Rhodes has written about being repeatedly raped by Peter Lee, at Arnold House school in London.

Peter Lee has been linked to alleged associates of the Kray Twins.


Peter Lee

James Rhodes has links to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Rhodes contacted Prime Minister Sánchez in 2018, and the Socialist Party leader promised to take action.

In February 2020, Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias, of the Podemos party, announced that the Rhodes Law would be one of the new left-wing coalition government's first reforms.

"The Conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox have accused the government of hypocrisy and a cover-up after its left-wing allies in the Balearic Islands refused to back an investigation in the regional parliament into reports of minors in care being prostituted."

British pianist James Rhodes drives child abuse reform in Spain

James Rhodes (right)

Lord Boothy, Ronnie Kray and a young man who died young. The Kray Twins hosted child abuse orgies at Cedra Court and at various flats around London including that of BBC DJ Alan Freeman

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Friday, 10 August 2018

ROBERT GRAVES

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I Claudius

The British writer Robert Graves wrote I, ClaudiusGood-Bye to All That and Hebrew Myths.


1947 - Graves, Gay

Above, we see Robert Graves (left) and his assistant and secretary Karl Goldschmidt, aka Kenneth Gay.



Robert Graves wrote a number of war poems .


Robert Graves (left) with his mother and brother.

Graves was married to Nancy Nicholson and then to Beryl Pritchard.


Nancy and her children. From left to right: Catherine, Nancy, Sam, Jenny and David. David Graves was killed during World War II. (Robert Graves' other children were Juan, Lucia, Tomás and William.) 

At age 13 Robert Graves attended a private boarding school called Charterhouse.[8]

Graves later wrote that, at Charterhouse, "the legend was put about that I was not only German but a German-Jew."

Graves' mother, Amalie von Ranke, was the daughter of Heinrich von Ranke, a German doctor.


Charterhouse.

At Charterhouse, Graves met an aristocratic boy three years younger, G. H. "Peter" Johnstone.

Graves had an intense romantic friendship with Johnstone.

"The scandal led ultimately to an interview with the headmaster."[10]

Much later, Johnstone "was caught in flagrante, apparently soliciting a soldier."

Robert Graves and the Loss of Innocence

Siegfried Sassoon

During World War One, Graves met Siegfried Sassoon and formed a strong romantic relationship with him.

Sassoon had affairs with - William Park "Gabriel" Atkin, [16]Ivor Novello, actor[17],
Glen Byam Shaw[18]Prince Philipp of Hesse, German aristocrat[17]Beverley Nichols, writer[17] and the Hon. Stephen Tennant, an aristocrat[17]

Sassoon married Hester Gatty.


Nancy Nicholson

In 1918, Graves married the boyish-looking Nancy Nicholson.

Laura Riding, 'a witch-like American poet'.

In 1926, Graves took up a post at Cairo University, accompanied by his wife Nancy Nicholson, their children and the poet Laura Riding.

Graves returned to London briefly, "where he split up with his wife  before leaving to live with Riding in Deià, Majorca."


Robert Graves.

"Robert Graves was married to Nancy Nicholson, but was besotted with Laura Riding.

"Laura jumped out of window, falling 50 feet, after being spurned by Geoffrey Phibbs, the man she was besotted with.

"Robert then jumped out of a window after her."

They both survived.

New book reveals bed-hopping antics of writer Robert Graves .

In 1939, Graves and Laura Riding moved to the United States, living in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Their volatile relationship led to an eventual breakup.


Beryl Hodge/Pritchard

After returning to Britain, Graves began a relationship with Beryl Hodge (Beryl Pritchard), the wife of his friend Alan Hodge.


Robert Graves and family in Majorca.

In 1946, Graves and Beryl re-established a home with their three children, in Deià, Majorca.
Juan Graves with Robert Graves.


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