[40], The multiple marital aspects of her husband's life came to Alison Wilson's notice only after Alec's death in 1963, when she discovered from his papers that his first wife was Gladys. Right here at FameChain. [45], Wilson had seven children with his four wives in sequence as in the table below:[12], Wilson wrote and published 24 novels:[46], Wilson also edited three academic books:[46], A further four of his manuscripts remain unpublished:[46], Third marriage and World War II intelligence work, Fourth marriage and post-World War II work. [14] Crook maintains that Yusuf Ali had connections with intelligence work. Baby Sussex born at home. This time he is kidnapped, put in a trunk, and successfully impersonated by Sir Leonard Wallace, Chief of the Intelligence Service. [34] The agent investigating Wilson's translations, Alex Kellar, was later found to have been working for the KGB mole at MI5, Anthony Blunt. [12], All his wives kept Alec's secrets, maintaining the image of him as a heroic figure for the sake of his children.[31]. Meghan and Harry are now proud parents of a baby boy. [22] Tensions were raised by hunger strikes and the Lahore Conspiracy Case, during which pro-independence activists died and others were sentenced to death. What we’ve seen over the last three hours shouldn’t have happened, but they’re the proof. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney.After his death his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people. He remembered seeing his father meet Joachim von Ribbentrop at the German Embassy in Carlton House Terrace in London in the spring of 1938, and recalled other meetings with men with whom his father spoke fluent German. Wilson” begins with Alec’s sudden death, a shock to Alison and their two sons, Gordon and Nigel (Ruth Wilson’s father). [35] Wilson may have faked the burglary to hide from Alison that he'd sold her jewellery to buy antibiotics to treat her post-natal infections. That shock is compounded when Gladys Wilson (Elizabeth Rider), a woman claiming to be Alec’s wife, shows up at Alison’s house and demands to be given his body for burial. In 1942 a maternal uncle told Dorothy's son, Michael, aged nine, that Alec had been killed in the Battle of El Alamein. [7] Each of Alec's children wore a badge indicating who their parents were. [43], Crook's book on Wilson and his numerous articles inspired the production of the BBC's 2018 three-part drama entitled Mrs Wilson, starring Iain Glen as Alec Wilson. [14] In 1915 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps, escorting motor transports and supplies to France. [10] [11] He lies buried on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. [15][10] In his romantic comic novel The Magnificent Hobo (1935) a touring theatrical company moves from town to town. The four surviving sons Dennis, Gordon, Nigel and Douglas are seated in the middle [5][14] [30]. [12] Dennis Wilson said that they thought the call had come from Alec's landlady. At the time the all-Muslim college's students were a minority in Lahore. Alexander Wilson lived an improbable, deceitful, destructive but undeniably intriguing life. What appear to be his last two novels, Chronicles of the Secret Service and Double Masquerade, were published by Herbert Jenkins in 1940. [14][28] [29] A letter written by Dorothy in 1936 mentions that Alec intended to travel to Spain during that country's civil war. 1842) in 1863.