David Sox : Highclere Guide : Did Sox Fake His Letter to Tony Leadbetter About Prince Victor Duleep Singh?

                                  PRINCE VICTOR DULEEP SINGH 

                AND PORCHEY CARNARVON

                      PROOF OF PATERNITY

Left : Victor Duleep Singh -Middle : Porchey Carnarvon 

Right : Lord George Carnarvon

WAS  DAVID SOX’S LETTER  OF 1 JUNE 1996 FAKED?

David Sox ( 1936-2016)  : A Guide at Highclere Castle in the 1990s, author of books on the Turin Shroud and on forgery and faking

Tony Leadbetter ( 1938-2019)  : Godson of Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon

 A letter  was sent  by  David Sox to Tony Leadbetter on 1 June 1996. FACT

The letter claims that Sox made a discovery in Highclere Archives ( quite by accident)  that Prince Victor Duleep Singh was the father of  the Sixth Earl of Carnarvon. FACT
 
The letter is flawed, as it contains historical errors about the name of Prince Victor’s own father. FACT

Sox was questioned in 2014 about what he found in Highclere Archives  he answered that he found nothing. FACT

If Sox found nothing in Highclere Archives  did he lie in the letter of 1 June 1996  to Tony Leadbetter?

 
It has been mooted by others that when Sox was asked in 2014 to cite details of his source in Highclere Archives,  he'd forgotten ( or chose to forget) that he'd written  a letter to Tony Leadbetter in 1996. 

Based on Sox’s underhand  methods of leaking and lying to suit his own ends on the carbon testing of the Turin Shroud his antics almost answers the question and the trail researched  raises a reasonable doubt about Sox's integrity and truthfulness.

This Author was cautioned by a contemporary of Sox’s who was  involved in the Shroud history. The advice was  that nothing Sox claimed should be believed unless there is independent proof of it or corroboration.

No one has ever verified that Sox  found anything in Highclere Archives on Porchey's father being Prince Victor. FACT  

Sox was told by several people ( who knew)  that Porchey Carnarvon was believed to be the son of Prince Victor Duleep Singh. FACT

It was a common belief on the Highclere Estate that Porchey was Victor’s son. FACT

This Author has been told by a number of credible  informants that Prince Victor Duleep Singh was the father of Porchey, later 6th Earl of Carnarvon 

If Sox knew  this information about Victor  before 1 June 1996 ( and received it from a source elsewhere)  it casts doubts on his letter to Tony Leadbetter as being anything other than  skulduggery and deception on Sox’s part.

By making a claim of  the discovery of something in Highclere Archives, was Sox  looking to hold a gun to the head of the Carnarvons? 

Or, more likely,  was this  act a part of a cunning plan to shower himself in glory as he did when he leaked the carbon dating results and then went on to write a book ?

Did Sox tell anyone other than Tony Leadbetter of his discovery ?

Sox began his researches into Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon in July 1995, ( supported evidence is held). i.e.  so a considerable time elapsed before his letter of 1 June 1996  

William Cross, FSA Scot

All Will Be Revealed In A Book in 2022

 

"Highclere Insider - David Sox : The Man Who Knew Too Much"

 

By William Cross, FSA Scot

 

ISBN 9781905914746

 

https://highclere-truths.yolasite.com/

 Any queries contact the Author  by email
williecross@aol.com
4th   January 2022 

Lord Porchester, later Henry, 6th Earl of Carnarvon