Because my heart belongs to Beau
Having watched, and been dissapointed again by 'This Charming Man'...this is my partial cast for my Beau Brummell biopic...with tiny bios...
As Princes Fred (1767-1820) Her greatest claim to fame was introducing the 'ballet pump' shoe to Regency fashion. Humilated by her husband's affairs and childlessness. She retrearted from society, spending her days caring for a minagery of animals, which included a monkey dressed as a butler, and a Newfoundland dog who walked infront of her coffin when she died suddenly at the age of 53. Although her marriage was not a conventional one, her and her husband were good friends, and they actively chose to spend time together. By the time Brummell met the pair, they were already ensconced in their own domisity, having come to terms with the idea that they would never have children.
Princess Fred became not only the love of Brummell's life, but also his bestfriend. Her husband was well aware of the relationship and even incouraged it, enjoying Brummell's company and the effect he had on his often melencoly wife.
A gambling addict like Brummell, her husband and most of the Royal family, the couple's parties were often dictated by how much money they had for food and water. Their running water was often cut off by bailiffs until they'd paid at least one bill...However Princess Fred did manage to save a small amount to support her servants after her death.
As Thomas Raikes (1777-1848) Raikes and Brummell first met when they were four in a carriage on their way to Eton. The pair became life long friends. Raikes often visited Brummell when he was in exile in France. He was a Dandy diarist, and his accounts are some of the most vivid and interesting about the Dandiocal body and Brummell. During his teenage years and early twenties the relationship between the pair extended beyond friendship, however this sexual experimentation is believed to have ended before Brummell contracted the syphilis, which would eventually kill him.
As Harriette Wilson (1785-1845) Discribed as the 'greatest Courtesan of her age' Wilson was the daughter of a Swiss watchmaker. Determined to escape her Mother's fate (married to an abusive alcholic, with 15 children) Wilson ran away with a middle aged neighbour at the age of 15. From these humble beginings she never looked back, following her celebrated sisters Amy and Fanny Dubouchet into the world of prositution, her lovers included dukes, lords and even the occational Prince. In her memoirs she even claimed to have bagged Byron at a party. Her relationship with Brummell was a complex one, due in part to the fact that she had slept with all his male friends, and also to the intense rivalry between Wilson and Julia Johnstone (Brummell's on off girlfriend). Wilson and Brummell shared a simular cruel streaked irrverent humour. Aquantences and occational lovers, Wilson was instrumental in Brummell's downfall when she let slip to Meyler that he'd lost the last of his money.When her career eventually ended she threatened and blackmailed her ex lovers by producing a series of sucessful memoirs from her time in the spot light.
Wilson visited Brummell once during his exile, while she was enroute to Paris. He lambasted her for humilating the wife of one of her lovers in her memoirs, the pair never spoke again.
She went on to write two more books, the last being fiction. She ended her life in extreme poverity.
Richard Meyler (the dandy killer) Like Brummell Meyler's family orgins were humble ones. A plain 'MR' his family had worked for their money, and not simply inherited it from titles. Deeply jealous of Brummell's ease in society, he started to believe that Brummell and his lover Wilson were laughing about him in an opposite box while at the threatre. He public announced that Brummell was a backcrupt to his creditors.
Meyler collapsed from a suspected brain tumor a year after Brummell's exile. He was 25.
As Julia Johnstone Johnstone first met Brummell when he'd been expelled from Eton for a summer, they were neighbours in Hampton Court. She was 17 and Brummell was 15. Johnstone was his first 'semi' serious girlfriend, although when they first met she'd been having an affair with another one of their Hampton Court neighbours a married 30 something Captain. After losing her virginity on a stone staircase, she hid her eventual pregnancy until her watersbroke during her presentation to the Queen. Disgraced and humilated, Johnstone retired from society living as Captain Johnstone's second wife, having 5 more children, until she bumped in Wilson. Wilson guessed at Johnstone's idenity almost immediatly, and used her infulence to futher intograte into high society. Johnstone introduced Wilson to Brummell, after meeting him again at the theatre. Brummell and Johnstone had a long running off and on relationship, he even considered marrying her at one point. It was to her that Brummell divulged the full extent of his finacial ruin, and it was from her that Wilson eventually learnt. At the end of her rather unsuccessful career as a Courtesan, Johnstone penned a rival set of memoirs, which went on sale on the dates that Wilson's weren't. Although breifly successful, Johnstone pen had none of the natural humour or theatrical flair of Wilson's.
The last record of Julia Johnstone is of her arrest for being drunk and disorderly.
As Princes Fred (1767-1820) Her greatest claim to fame was introducing the 'ballet pump' shoe to Regency fashion. Humilated by her husband's affairs and childlessness. She retrearted from society, spending her days caring for a minagery of animals, which included a monkey dressed as a butler, and a Newfoundland dog who walked infront of her coffin when she died suddenly at the age of 53. Although her marriage was not a conventional one, her and her husband were good friends, and they actively chose to spend time together. By the time Brummell met the pair, they were already ensconced in their own domisity, having come to terms with the idea that they would never have children.
Princess Fred became not only the love of Brummell's life, but also his bestfriend. Her husband was well aware of the relationship and even incouraged it, enjoying Brummell's company and the effect he had on his often melencoly wife.
A gambling addict like Brummell, her husband and most of the Royal family, the couple's parties were often dictated by how much money they had for food and water. Their running water was often cut off by bailiffs until they'd paid at least one bill...However Princess Fred did manage to save a small amount to support her servants after her death.
As Thomas Raikes (1777-1848) Raikes and Brummell first met when they were four in a carriage on their way to Eton. The pair became life long friends. Raikes often visited Brummell when he was in exile in France. He was a Dandy diarist, and his accounts are some of the most vivid and interesting about the Dandiocal body and Brummell. During his teenage years and early twenties the relationship between the pair extended beyond friendship, however this sexual experimentation is believed to have ended before Brummell contracted the syphilis, which would eventually kill him.
As Harriette Wilson (1785-1845) Discribed as the 'greatest Courtesan of her age' Wilson was the daughter of a Swiss watchmaker. Determined to escape her Mother's fate (married to an abusive alcholic, with 15 children) Wilson ran away with a middle aged neighbour at the age of 15. From these humble beginings she never looked back, following her celebrated sisters Amy and Fanny Dubouchet into the world of prositution, her lovers included dukes, lords and even the occational Prince. In her memoirs she even claimed to have bagged Byron at a party. Her relationship with Brummell was a complex one, due in part to the fact that she had slept with all his male friends, and also to the intense rivalry between Wilson and Julia Johnstone (Brummell's on off girlfriend). Wilson and Brummell shared a simular cruel streaked irrverent humour. Aquantences and occational lovers, Wilson was instrumental in Brummell's downfall when she let slip to Meyler that he'd lost the last of his money.When her career eventually ended she threatened and blackmailed her ex lovers by producing a series of sucessful memoirs from her time in the spot light.
Wilson visited Brummell once during his exile, while she was enroute to Paris. He lambasted her for humilating the wife of one of her lovers in her memoirs, the pair never spoke again.
She went on to write two more books, the last being fiction. She ended her life in extreme poverity.
Richard Meyler (the dandy killer) Like Brummell Meyler's family orgins were humble ones. A plain 'MR' his family had worked for their money, and not simply inherited it from titles. Deeply jealous of Brummell's ease in society, he started to believe that Brummell and his lover Wilson were laughing about him in an opposite box while at the threatre. He public announced that Brummell was a backcrupt to his creditors.
Meyler collapsed from a suspected brain tumor a year after Brummell's exile. He was 25.
As Julia Johnstone Johnstone first met Brummell when he'd been expelled from Eton for a summer, they were neighbours in Hampton Court. She was 17 and Brummell was 15. Johnstone was his first 'semi' serious girlfriend, although when they first met she'd been having an affair with another one of their Hampton Court neighbours a married 30 something Captain. After losing her virginity on a stone staircase, she hid her eventual pregnancy until her watersbroke during her presentation to the Queen. Disgraced and humilated, Johnstone retired from society living as Captain Johnstone's second wife, having 5 more children, until she bumped in Wilson. Wilson guessed at Johnstone's idenity almost immediatly, and used her infulence to futher intograte into high society. Johnstone introduced Wilson to Brummell, after meeting him again at the theatre. Brummell and Johnstone had a long running off and on relationship, he even considered marrying her at one point. It was to her that Brummell divulged the full extent of his finacial ruin, and it was from her that Wilson eventually learnt. At the end of her rather unsuccessful career as a Courtesan, Johnstone penned a rival set of memoirs, which went on sale on the dates that Wilson's weren't. Although breifly successful, Johnstone pen had none of the natural humour or theatrical flair of Wilson's.
The last record of Julia Johnstone is of her arrest for being drunk and disorderly.