Christopher Lee's friends had no internet yet, so they had to resort to letters to troll his uptight Swedish father-in-law

**Context:** Around this time Christopher Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, a Swedish noblewoman. Her father, Count Fritz von Rosen, was strongly against this marriage prospect and making things difficult at every turn. >Having seen this wave of **[hired P.I.s coming to England]** shot down, **[Count Fritz]** tried a new tactic. As if I were entering domestic service, he asked me to furnish references. Staunch to my love, I swallowed my pride and asked some of my friends to put down a few words about my character. >Douglas Fairbanks gave me a very nice boost. >John Boulting wrote a masterpiece of courtesy which sent Fritz von Rosen into transports of rage, which began: "You must realize, dear Count von Rosen, that actors are no longer rogues and vagabonds." >And the third was from my old friend Joe Jackson, who sent me two with a covering letter saying, "Here is something for your apparently idiot father-in-law." One was signed Nasser, and testified to my being a confirmed rapist and sodomite and the other was orthodox, and signed with his true title, R. L. Jackson, Assistant Commissioner CID. --- **Source:** Lee, Christopher: Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1997), p. 263 --- **Further Reading:** * [Christopher Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee) * [Douglas Fairbanks jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks_Jr.) * [John Boulting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulting_brothers) * [Sir Richard Leofric "Joe" Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jackson_(police_officer))