The Kray twins agree to a RARE interview Their exploits were fictionalised in the 1990 film The Krays, which starred Martin and Gary Kemp. This was said to have angered the criminals who explicitly did not like the film.

How accurate is the Krays film?

A former associate of the Krays, Freddie Foreman, told The Sun that while watching Hardy on screen was "uncanny" and like "seeing the twins reincarnated", the film gets the relationship between Reggie and his wife, Frances Shea, totally wrong.

How factual is the film Legend?

Behind the Legend: how accurate is Tom Hardy's Krays drama? Read more More murder Legend's depiction of the murder of Jack McVitie is even more questionable – changed to fit with its inaccurate contentions, first, that Reg was sane, and second, that Ron and Reg fell out permanently over Frances.

Did Reggie really love Frances?

They base the film mostly on the love story between Reggie and Frances and he really did love her and she did love him. Remember she's got this older, good-looking, immaculately dressed businessman boyfriend and she's a little 18-year-old from the east end and never been up the west to a nightclub.

Did the Krays know the great train robbers?

The violent criminals took 'mysterious' trips to Glasgow before the heist, were friends with known robbers and would have wanted to be involved, according to former detective Graham Satchwell. The ex-superintendent linked the Krays to the notorious 1963 crime in his new book Great Train Robbery Confidential.

Rare interview with The Kray Twins, Reggie & Ronnie (Remastered)

Are any of the great train robbers still alive?

So now there is no one left. No survivors of the daring and violent raid on a Glasgow to London mail train in which £2.6 million in unmarked bank notes was stolen in just 46 minutes. With the death at 94 of Robert Welch, last remaining member of the Great Train Robbery gang, a final secret goes with him to the grave.

Who betrayed the Krays?

Jack McVitie (19 April 1932 – 29 October 1967), best known as Jack the Hat, was an English criminal from London during the 1950s and 1960s. He is posthumously famous for triggering the imprisonment and downfall of the Kray twins.

Why did Frances leave Reggie?

Reggie refused to leave her alone, and by 1967, the reconciled as a couple but not yet living together. Reggie Kray abused Frances physically and emotionally. Reggie Kray's brother Ronnie was homosexual; even Reggie was claimed to be bisexual. After their death, documents revealed that they had an incest relationship.

Did Ronnie and Reggie sleep together?

In his biography of the twins, The Profession of Violence, Pearson claims that Ronnie Kray admitted that he and Reggie discovered they were both gay in their adolescence and would often have sex together, an activity which continued into their later life.

Are there any relatives of the Krays still alive?

But it is less likely that you've heard about Nancy Kray. Daughter of Charlie Kray, the older brother of the twins, Nancy is one of the last surviving custodians to the more intimate world of one of the world's most renowned families.

Which is better, the Krays or the Legend?

Legend is a good entertaining movie about the legendary Kray brothers even though it's more about Frances, the wife of Reggie Kray, narrating her point of view regarding the whole situation. Personally I preferred The Krays from 1990 with the Kemp brothers (from Spandau Ballet) playing the twin brothers.

Did the krays ever fight each other?

And they didn't just fight other people, the twins would regularly get into vicious fights with one another! Although they operated in partnership with one another, many members of "The Firm" (the Krays' gang) attest that Reggie and Ronnie fought daily.

What parts of Legend are true?

Who was the hardest out of the Krays?

Moody was an enforcer for the Richardsons and did freelance "work" for the Krays. He was considered by many of his peers to be "the hardest man in London". In the 1970s, he joined a team of criminals to form the Chainsaw Gang who went on to become that decade's most successful group of armed robbers.

What celebrities knew the Krays?

Windsor wasn't the only famous person who the twins counted as acquaintances. Amongst the celebrities they knew were actors George Raft, Judy Garland, Diana Dors, Liza Minelli and Jayne Mansfield, and singers Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Cliff Richard, Danny La Rue as well as comedian Peter Sellers.

Did the Krays ever see each other again?

In 1982, the pair were briefly reunited, but only to attend the funeral of their mother Violet. However, they were forced to spend the whole service chained to a guard and neither brother was allowed to go to the graveside.

Did Reggie go to Ronnie's funeral?

Reggie at Ronnie's funeral in March 1995, at St Matthew's Church.

Was Ronnie Kray schizo?

The gangster Ronnie Kray (1933 to 1995) was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins by John George Pearson contains a good account of Ronnie's illness as well other aspects of he and and his brother Reggie's lives and criminal careers.

How did the krays get caught?

More than 100 detectives raided homes and offices all over the capital in the largest operation of its kind carried out by Scotland Yard. The Kray brothers were the first to be arrested when police forced their way into their mother's council flat at Braithwaite House, Finsbury.

Did Reggie marry after Francis?

While Reg was in prison, he married Roberta Jones, who was helping to publicise a film she was making about Ronnie two years after his death. Following his terminal bladder cancer diagnosis, Reggie was freed from prison on compassionate grounds by Home Secretary Jack Straw in August 2000.

Why wasn't Charlie Kray in Legend?

“Charlie doesn't appear in Legend at all,” I said. “Maybe they thought it would be too complicated for American audiences to have twins and a third brother.” “The Twins didn't like the first film,” Micky told me. “They hated Charlie for it all the rest of his life.”

How many wives did Reggie Kray have?

Death and Legacy

In 2000, Reggie was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer. He was given compassion leave and left prison to spend his final weeks with his second wife Roberta Jones. Reggie died on October 1, 2000, at the age of 66. He passed away at a Norwich hotel.

Did Reggie Kray regret?

Reggie Kray, the man whose words and deeds once terrorised the London underworld, said yesterday: "I have got no regrets, my brother didn't have any either.

Who turned Queens' evidence against the Krays?

For Michael became an internationally renowned pastry chef, whilst the young Ronnie Hart chose to join the Firm. Hart later turned Queen's evidence, which ultimately led to the Krays' conviction at the Old Bailey in 1969 at the most expensive trial in legal history at that time.

What did Reggie Kray do to his wife?

Reggie Kray slept with armoury of weapons by his bedside, a diary written by his late wife, Frances Shea, reveals. Shea was married to the East End gangster for two years, before dying of an overdose when she was just 24. She first met Kray at the age of 16 and married him in 1965 when she was 22.