| | | The Royal Bank Of Scotland printed cheque book that put the HRH in Joseph Sickert HRH is not mentioned in the book The Ripper And The Royals as I think I thought that it was back in March. I must have heard about this little detail from Joe directly over the telephone. I do remember that, whatever the RBoS thought about it, it meant a great deal to the man writing the cheques. It is probably fair to say though, as some here already did, that this little detail, even if accurate, carries little weight as verification for Sickert's Version Of The Story in the large. And on rereading TRTR there are much more significant confirmations than this one available. Once again, I failed here to do justice to whatever reasons there may be for Trusting Joseph Sickert. At least I warned everyone as much at the time.
The other thing to note is that all stories we mull over tend to do this: the different strands learnt in different ways in different places tend to come together, at least if our psyche can seem to make them fit together. This is what happened here. The story as I remembered it combined this detail seamlessly. But its source was in fact subtly different. Based as it is on a memory of a telephone conversation over four years ago, without any supporting written material checked by the other party, it has to be viewed as more likely to be prone to misunderstanding or error on my part.
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