Una suggestiva coincidenza vuole che Tara Browne avesse fatto perdere (momentaneamente?) le sue tracce nello stesso periodo in cui Paul McCartney si fece vedere poco o nulla nella scena pubblica.
Propongo la prima pagina del "Daily Mirror" datato 14 ottobre 1966:
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Mother has children made wards of courtGUINNESS HEIR AND TWO SONS MISSINGThe two young children of Guinness heir Tara Browne were made wards of court in the High Court
yesterday after his wife had made a vain dash to Ireland to find them.
Mr. David Jacobs, solicitor for the wife, said that Tara, 21 — who secretly married Irish farmer's
daughter Nicky Macsherrv in1963 — left their home in ' Belgravia, at the weekend.
The children, Dorian 3, and Julian, 1,had been in the care of a nanny at the home of their grandmother,
Mrs. Oonagh Ferreras, 56, formerly LadyOranmore and Browne, at Luggala, Co WIcklow, Eire.
Mr. Jacobs said; "Mrs. Browne Knew that nanny had been dismissed. After her husband left at the weekend,
she went to Ireland and discovered that neither the children nor their grandmother were there.
She does not know where her husband or the children are. She has searched and cannot find them. She'
made inquiries and returned to London."
Mr Jacobs added: "We have asked her husband's solicitors to disclose his whereabouts so that a summons can
be served on him, but they have refused to tell us."
He appealed to the father to disclose his whereabouts.
Mrs. Browne, 24, who lives in a £20,000 mews house in Eaton - row, Belgravia, once worked as a clerk at the Bank of England.
SummonsShe called on Mr. Jacobs yesterday at his office in Pall Mall. Then Mr. Jacobs went to the High Court, and the summons malting
the children wards of court was issued.
Mrs. Browne said last night: "The matter is in the hands of my solicitor and I have no comment to make."
Tara, whose father is 64- year-old Lord Oranmore and Browne — his marriage to Oonagh was dissolved in 1950—
is due to inherit nearly £1,000,000 as his share of a trust fund in four years' time.
DissolvedHis mother married Cuban dress designer Miguel Ferreras in 1958, but that marriage was dissolved early last year.
Last night, at the home in Hans-crescent, Chelsea, of Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, another of the Guinness family,
a butler said:
"Her ladyship is in Italy. Mrs. Ferreras was staying at her ladyship's countryhouse in Kent last weekend, but she is not there now."
At the luxurious lodge in County Wicklow, a house guest said: "Mrs. Ferreras is not here, and neither is Tara."
In pratica Nicky MacSherry, moglie di Tara Browne, annuncia di essersi affidata al suo avvocato per avere la tutela legale dei i figli scomparsi così come sembra introvabile anche il loro padre Tara (l'ha "mollata" circa una settimana prima, pare di capire) e persino la suocera.
Una semplice bega matrimoniale con strascico di battaglia legale per l'affidamento dei figli? Probabilmente è così... ma la battaglia la vincerà la suocera che otterrà l'affidamento dei nipoti dopo la morte del figlio avvenuta non molte settimane più tardi di questi fatti.
Altra suggestiva coincidenza vuole che il giorno dopo l'uscita di questo articolo si tenesse il "launch party" della rivista "International times", rara apparizione in pubblico, in quell'autunno del 1966, di Paul McCarntey, che per l'occasione (festa in maschera) a quanto pare si presentò "travestito da arabo" con tanto di turbante... non proprio il massimo della riconoscibilità...