For the staff and patrons of The Plumbers Arms, a pub in London’s upmarket Belgravia district, the evening of 7 November 1974 began like any other. But at around 10pm, the night’s familiar rhythm was shattered when a woman stumbled in drenched in blood and screaming: “Help me, help me, help me! I have just escaped from being murdered! He’s in the house! He’s murdered the nanny!”
The woman was Lady Lucan, a familiar face in the nation’s