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That should make me feel better than it does, but at least I’m not lying to Linnea by omission anymore. I can let this all go and find Linnea and enjoy her.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

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Blog93: Time to take out the trash - Expose time!!

It’s been a minute, hasn’t it! Missed me? I’m sorry I’ve not responded to all your DMs, but I’m telling you, I’ve been knee-deep in the shit I’ve dug up on Henry Lancaster and I wanted to make sure I spin this right, although I’m sure I’ll get another one of those cease and desists.

Ah, I’ve not had the pleasure of doing one of these in a while. It’s got me all fired up. I’m trembling, writing this. You know, I should be an investigator.

Anyway, I digress. Come with me.

Henry Lancaster. 44 years old. Absolute toss-pot IMHO.

Go back to the last blog if you’re not caught up. Aiden Aurellan’s new girlfriend, Linnea Fredriksen, used to be married to this arse.

So… the fucker isn’t even called Lancaster, that’s one thing. He was born Henry Brown. He changed his name legally when he turned 18, I’ve found this via via but it’s all factual, links below, but who cares. Henry, never graduated from university as far as I can tell. But his website says he has background in design? Over twenty years in the industry? Well… Let’s take a look at it, because he clearly started his little con when he was in his late teens when he changed his identity.

Henry has a number of unsuccessful business ventures behind him. He started an organic t-shirt company when he was 20 and abandoned this after one year. He was self-employed as some kind of marketing consultant (?), opened a bubble tea franchise in Canary Wharf, closed it, then he started a leather import company which he dissolved three years later (I’m not into the numbers but they don’t look great—negative profit is bad, isn’t it?), and then he seems to have taken on a permanent role as customer executive for a silk flower supplier to the luxury hospitality industry. For ten years. A glorified salesperson (no offence to salespeople but he’s pretending to be something else, let’s just call a spade a spade). This is presumably how he met Linnea when he was 37 and she was 30-ish.

Alright, alright, I hear you. WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

It does, though! He TOOK LINNEA’S DESIGN COMPANY! I hate the unfairness of it. Why is he getting away with this? And from what I’ve heard from a highly reputable source with ears close to the ground, he’s talking about her to her potential clients, deterring them from hiring her. No one should believe a word this man says.

There are photos circulating from the Buckingham Palace picnic of him throwing a croquet mallet around because he lost a game. How pathetic is this man?

Let’s round it up.

He took advantage of Linnea, pretty much wasted over six years of her love life (although glad to see she found a new and better one), and then took half her company in the divorce.

THEN, he pretends he’s the designer, telling people all kinds of porky-pies about his ex-wife (who’s done nothing wrong, btw, she’s a lovely girl, is what I hear).

AND he’s the one who cheated on her (I found A LOT of photos of him with his dear Harriet well before the divorce, but can’t share directly because, well, as much as Henry’s an arse, I don’t need to be one.)

Yep. You know I hate cheaters. Of any kind. And yes, I can see the irony in me saying that, as an anonymous blogger who spews gossip and opinions like it’s news without ever showing my face and never taking responsibility. Fuck that shit. I don’t have to. Henry did. They were married. Business partners.

Now he’s engaged to Harriet Sinclair (she’s 27!).

I thought the old Sinclair family had some integrity. How can they have this man become the next Baron or whatever-the-fuck titles they keep?

Take out the trash, Sinclair.

Until next time, keep spreading the word, and we’ll take down one douche at a time,

WHIM xox

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[Ziggy] Fucking hell, I’m keying that man’s car next time I see it

[Haptic98] Can I come?

[Kit-Cat-8] Hold on. Hold on. How did no one check his background?