#Latest news with #1950sLondonDaily Mail27-05-2025EntertainmentDaily MailThe blind man I nursed kept his bombshell past secret. It was only when he made me promise to tell his story after death that I understood the act of bravery that could have seen him locked up for life: CHRISTOPHER STEVENSWith movie stars including Raquel Welch and Robert Mitchum among his clientele, Roger Butler had no shortage of glamour in his work at a high-end property lettings agency. But for the shy 22-year-old who had grown up in the sleepy Oxfordshire countryside, the real excitement of living in the London of the 1950s was the chance to explore his homosexuality with encounters that were sometimes as unlikely as they were exciting.
Daily Mail27-05-2025EntertainmentDaily MailThe blind man I nursed kept his bombshell past secret. It was only when he made me promise to tell his story after death that I understood the act of bravery that could have seen him locked up for life: CHRISTOPHER STEVENSWith movie stars including Raquel Welch and Robert Mitchum among his clientele, Roger Butler had no shortage of glamour in his work at a high-end property lettings agency. But for the shy 22-year-old who had grown up in the sleepy Oxfordshire countryside, the real excitement of living in the London of the 1950s was the chance to explore his homosexuality with encounters that were sometimes as unlikely as they were exciting.