Reggie Kray freed". BBC News. 26 August 2000. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017 . Retrieved 19 September 2015. Johnny Reggae” is a 1971 novelty song [1]produced by Jonathan Kingand credited to The Piglets. The single cover mentions “conceived, created, produced and directed by Jonathan King”. [2]It was released on Bell Records. Jenks, Chris; Lorentzen, Justin (2004). "The Kray Fascination". In Chris Jenks (ed.). Urban Culture Critical Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies Volume 4. London: Routledge. pp. 3–24. ISBN 9780415304993.

Don't Forget the Krays Were Killers". The Telegraph. 30 August 2000. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 28 July 2018. Edge, Simon (15 May 2014). "Reggie Kray's tragic first wife: Nightmare of Frances Shea's life with East End gangster". Daily Express. Archived from the original on 16 May 2014 . Retrieved 20 August 2014. Legend: Tom Hardy Emily Browning star in Kray brothers film". Herald Sun . Retrieved 5 October 2022.

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Clydesdale, Lindsay (13 October 2009). "Roberta Kray on her life as a gangster's widow". Scotland: Daily Record (online). Archived from the original on 3 April 2016 . Retrieved 10 April 2016. A letter Ronnie sent to his mother Violet from prison in 1968 also refers to Monica: "if they let me see Monica and put me with Reg, I could not ask for more." He went on to say, "Monica is the only girl I have liked in my life. She is a lovely little person as you know. When you see her, tell her I am in love with her more than ever." [90] Ronnie subsequently married twice, marrying Elaine Mildener in 1985 at Broadmoor chapel (with Joey Pyle as best man) [91] before the couple divorced in 1989, following which he married Kate Howard, whom he divorced in 1994. [92] Kate Howard lived for a number of years in Headcorn Kent, in Forge Lane.

Watson-Smyth, Kate (15 July 1997). "Flowers, but no champagne at Reggie Kray's wedding". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018 . Retrieved 6 December 2011. That’s okay, you can serve this gentleman first,” I said, “I’m happy to wait because I have some work for you to frame.”Part of the appeal of the legend of the Krays is that their story ended with the "dark side" of life that they represented being vanquished. Pettey wrote: "In general, twins' lives fascinate because of their rarity in culture; their singularity forms the stuff of foundational myths, and lends itself to speculations about repetition, dualities and paradoxes. For Ron and Reggie Kray, local East End and London media lore hinted at two personalities, the gangster and the gentleman, the schizophrenic sadist and the clear-headed businessman, and the promiscuous homosexual and the monogamous married man." [110] Deaths edit The singer brought his Texan and outlaw roots into his later work as well, finding success with his own take on Robert Earl Keen’s newer classic, “Corpus Christi Bay.” En Español Reggie Kray: Notorious gangster". BBC News. 26 August 2000. Archived from the original on 5 February 2004 . Retrieved 20 August 2014. Mrs. Kray was regarded as a minor celebrity in Bethnal Green for giving birth to and raising a healthy pair of twins at a time when the child mortality rate was high among the British working class. [9] In the interwar period, it was normal that one of the twins born into working-class families would die before adulthood, and it was most unusual that both the Kray twins survived, making their mother the object of much admiration in Bethnal Green and causing her to have an inflated ego. There was a feeling within Bethnal Green that there was an almost unnatural emotional closeness between the twins and their mother, who shunned the company of others. [10]