Highclere Insiders
"Highclere Insider - David Sox : The Man Who Knew Too Much" This book in 2022 reveals truths on the claim that Sox found evidence in Highclere Archives linking Prince Victor Duleep Singh as the father of Henry, Lord Porchester, 6th Earl of Carnarvon

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William Cross

David Sox was a part-time clergyman, author of books on the Shroud of Turin, and an art aficionado. He oozed self- importance and had an inherent ruthlessness that made him reach out for any opportunity to raise his own reputation and notoriety.

But in his researches into  Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon Sox bit off more than he could chew !!

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

David Sox : A Guide at Highclere Castle in the 1990s

Tony Leadbetter : Godson of Almina, 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 Sigh 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 had found nothing. FACT

If Sox found nothing in Highclere Archives  he lied 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 had forgotten ( to 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 it almost answers the question and raises 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 other 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.

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


William Cross, FSA Scot

 Queries contact the Author  by email

williecross@aol.com

3rd  January 2022