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Informationen zum Autor Maureen Flanagan! best known by her professional name! Flanagan! is a former actress and model. In her twenties! Maureen was known as the most photographed model in Britain. Her early BBC tv appearances included roles in The Benny Hill Show! Monty Python's Flying Circus! The Dave Allen Show and Only Fools & Horses. Flanagan shot to fame in the Seventies when she became one of the Sun newspaper's earliest Page Three girls. The Sun's editorial told readers Flanagan was 21 years old: in fact! she was 30! With a modelling career that continued well into her fifties! Maureen then became established as a celebrity fund raiser and after dinner speaker. She is an expert on London's East End and the history of the Kray twins! whose family she knew well over many decades. She lives in Hackney! in the heart of the East End! and has one son! JJ! and four grandchildren. Klappentext Maureen Flanagan ('Flan') was a 20-year-old hairdresser who started visiting the Kray family home each week to give Violet! her weekly shampoo and set. They formed a strong friendship and Violet began to confide in 'Flan' about her life! her incredible pride in her Twins' increasing notoriety! the celebrities who visited her at their humble East End home -- and her troubled relationship with her husband! Charlie Snr. This intensely personal relationship with the Kray family would last for over forty years. When Violet! already dying of cancer! but determined to do her best for her beloved boys! had to travel across the country on her prison visits! Maureen went too. And after Violet died in 1982! Maureen made a promise that she would look after the boys. Her loyalty never wavered: she continued to visit the twins and their brother Charlie at every possible opportunity -- right up to the very end of their lives. A fascinating! untold! intimate history of an extraordinary family; this is a detailed story of a unique relationship across the decades. Told with humour and insight! revealing a great deal more about the Kray twins and their close-knit East End family than has ever been told! before now? Zusammenfassung 40 YEARS WITH THE KRAYS is the untold! intimate history of the twins and the woman who raised them. Told with humour and insight! it looks back across the decades at the life of this close knit! notorious East End family. Maureen Flanagan! a then 20 year old hairdresser started visiting the Kray family home in Vallance Road each week to give the twins' mother! Violet! her weekly shampoo and set. Over the cups of tea and the rollers and hairpins! Violet began to confide in 'Flan' about her life! her incredible pride in her twins! the celebrities who visited her at their humble East End home - and her troubled relationship with her husband. ...
