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Ronnie later stated about his childhood: "We had our mother, and we had each other, so we never needed no one else". [11] One of the Krays' cousins who attended school with them, Billy Wilshire, recalled: "It's hard to say exactly what it was, but they weren't like other children". [12] The Krays' biographer, John Pearson, argued that their mother planted the seeds of the malignant narcissism that the twins would display as adults by encouraging her sons to think of themselves as being extraordinary while spoiling their every whim. [13] History". the Berkeley Hotel. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012 . Retrieved 4 December 2012. Reggie Kray dies". BBC News. 1 October 2000. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 . Retrieved 19 September 2015. Part of the Krays' newfound celebrity status was due to the widespread perception that the twins were men who had risen out of poverty into positions of great wealth and power due to their own efforts. [28] They were seen as an example, albeit a perverse one, of the " meritocracy" that was to replace the traditional class system. [28] Furthermore, the 1960s were a time when many social mores were being questioned, and the Krays were widely seen as "rebels" against what were perceived as sanctimonious and hypocritical traditional British values. [29] The scholars Chris Jenks and Justin Lorentzen wrote that there was "a popular mistrust of the Establishment" in the 1960s and that as many young people "laughed Prime Minister Macmillan and President Johnson, their teachers and university lecturers and priests and moralists off the stage", the Krays were seen as folk heroes. [30] This was a period of intense debates arising about consumerism, social mobility, sexuality, style and social tolerance, and the Krays were involved in all of them as symbols, either bad or good, about the changes taking place in British society. [31] Catherine Baksi (19 March 2020). "Nemone Lethbridge: 'It's impossible for anyone to go to the Bar who hasn't got a rich daddy' ". The Times. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020 . Retrieved 28 October 2020.

Pearson, John (1995). The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins. HarperCollins Publishers. Here comes Johnny Reggae, Reggae Reggae, Lay it on me. Yes, well, last night that awful song was an earworm in my head!” a b "Charlie Kray dies in hospital aged 72". The Guardian. 5 April 2000. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015 . Retrieved 19 September 2015. Funeral tributes for Kray". BBC News. 11 October 2000. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012 . Retrieved 19 September 2015. 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.

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Pearson, John (2010). Notorious The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. New York: Randhom House. ISBN 9781409099963.

I was threatened with arrest so many times it became a joke," says Peter Harris, who opened a shop in Portobello Road and was arrested entering his own premises because the police assumed he was a burglar. He ended up crashing through the showroom fighting with three policemen. "My wife said 'What are you doing with my husband? He owns the shop!'" a b c d Jenks, Chris; Lorentzen, Justin J. (August 1997). "The Kray Fascination". Theory, Culture & Society. 14 (3): 87–107. doi: 10.1177/026327697014003004. ISSN 0263-2764. S2CID 144735791.

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Police investigated the Krays on several occasions, but the twins' reputation for violence made witnesses afraid to testify. There was also a problem for both main political parties. The Conservatives were unwilling to press the police to end the Krays' power for fear that the Boothby connection would again be publicised, and Labour—having gained control of the House of Commons with an extremely thin majority and the prospect of a snap election in the very near future—did not want connections between Ronnie and Driberg to get into the public realm. [55] [56] Alliance with the American Mafia edit Pearson, John (1972). The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins. New York, Saturday Review Press. ISBN 9780841502505. Biography Bray, Christopher (2014). 1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born. London: Simon & Schuster. p. xii. ISBN 978-1-84983-387-5.