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Nellie Clifden – The Irish Prostitute Who Nearly Brought the British Royal Family Crashing Down
Nellie Clifden – The Irish Prostitute Who Nearly Brought the British Royal Family Crashing Down The Curragh, 6th September 1861. Nellie Clifden watched the two moustachioed officers approach through the tumbling Kildare rains, their red tunics fading into the deep green furze of the gorse. She recognised them from before. The Grenadier Guards, the most […]