Reggie Kray, his girlfriend Frances Shea and friends in Jersey, May 1960.

“Incredibly, he also took sixteen-year-old Frances on a trip to Jersey in May 1960 in their early days of courtship. They flew there. Of course there’d be sepearate rooms, Reggie assured Frank Senior beforehand, and this was no lie. Frances had no intention of loosing her virginity and her glamorous, free spending older boyfriend was nothing but respectful of this.”

Most recent photos of Frances grave, August 2023. Uploaded to her 'Find A Grave' site.

More of Frances , she was so pretty 💕💖

Believe me when I say it took a lot of love for me to hate him the way I do.

She was so beautiful Omds

Happy Birthday to these two legendary boys from East London Reggie&Ronnie Kray they would have been in their 89 years of age if they were still around but may they still RIP up in the heavens for these two Kings.

🤎✨🇬🇧🖤🙌🏼👓🥃🖤

“Me and my brother right we’re going to rule London.”

Ronald “Ronnie” Kray- Legend(2015)

𝐓𝐀𝐆 𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐏 :  𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒                ———                𝑖 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 , 𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡 . 𝑠𝑜 𝑖 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 , 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 . 

REGGIE KRAY : 

◜⠀ ic | reggie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   if heaven is a place where the angels go then i know i’m going straight to hell  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ visage | reggie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   i am a plethora of blood ﹔  warm shadows， i want to feel holy  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ musings | reggie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   surely some revelation is at hand ﹔   surely the second coming is at hand  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ study | reggie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   i am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered  ﹗ ◞

RONNIE KRAY : 

◜⠀ ic | ronnie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   after the wolf was done eating the lamb ﹔   it gnawed its bone to dust  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ visage | ronnie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers ﹔   real gods require blood  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ study | ronnie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   i have never been allowed to be holy， i have never been forgiven for wanting  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ musings | ronnie kray  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   i regret no sin i have committed， for to be wicked is to be alive  ﹗ ◞

FRANCES SHEA : 

◜⠀ ic | frances shea  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   she laughs like god her mind’s like a diamond ﹔   audiotune lies， she’s   still   shining  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ visage | frances shea  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   you carry the heavens in your eyes like one of those old greek tragedies  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ study | frances shea  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   i remember wishing i could be boiled like water and made pure again  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ musings | frances shea  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   i carry along a feel of unease ﹔   i want to belong like the birds in the trees  ﹗ ◞

CONNECTIONS : 

◜⠀ con | reggie & ronnie  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   tell me why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me  ﹗ ◞

◜⠀ con | frances & reggie  —⠀⠀ ،،̲   even though you’re killing me， i need you like the air i breathe  ﹗ ◞

Tom Hardy in Legend (Brian Helgeland, 2015)

Cast: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston, David Thewlis, Taron Edgerton, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Bettany, Colin Morgan, Tara Fitzgerald, Paul Anderson, Sam Spruell, Jane Wood. Screenplay: Brian Helgeland, based on a book by John Pearson. Cinematography: Dick Pope. Production design: Tom Conroy. Music: Carter Burwell.

Perhaps if Brian Helgeland's screenplay and direction had been stronger, Tom Hardy's performance as the Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie, might have made more impact. Hardy is an always watchable actor, and he makes a sharp delineation between the two brothers, one psychotic and the other more charmingly deadly. But Helgeland has missed an opportunity to put the Krays in the context of their era: the "swinging London" of the 1960s. There are some superficial name-dropping attempts: Reggie's girlfriend, Frances Shea (Emily Browning), spots Joan Collins in a nightclub, and there are some other pop notables on the scene. But the script is too preoccupied with Reggie's affair with and marriage to Frances to give the Krays' kind of gangsterism any larger significance, the way Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films (1972, 1974, 1980) integrated the relationship of Michael and Kay Corleone into the greater social and political context. Helgeland also makes a serious misstep with a voiceover narration -- often a sign of weakness in screenplays, a suggestion that the writer hasn't worked out a way to provide exposition dramatically. That the narrator is Frances, who dies three-quarters of the way into the film, only compounds the error: Narrative by a dead person rarely works, except in fantasy films or in the sardonic context of Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950). The device loses its point after Frances's death: Her function in the screenplay is first to humanize Reggie Kray -- the film lays on Carter Burwell's score a little too thickly in their love scenes -- and then to suggest that he has suddenly somehow lost his soul when he rapes and beats her. Ronnie is a one-note character throughout, with his retinue of lethal boyfriends, including a standout Taron Edgerton as the giggling "Mad Teddy" Smith. Hardy fills him with silent menace, but he's a good enough actor to make the decision to give him a false nose and to stuff his cheeks like Marlon Brando's in The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) all the more regrettable.

Here is an appreciation post for Frances Shea/Frances Kray . Tbh I’d risk it all for her because damn 🥴😍

Frances Shea, 1960s

Dress and hair detail on Frances Shea's wedding day

Beautiful Frances 🤍

Legend (2015)

Today we’re looking at the biographical crime thriller, Legend (2015). What did it do well? Read on to find out! The true story of London’s most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out…

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❝ .....But I can to’morrow? ❞

Tom Hardy & Emily Browning as Reggie Kray & Frances Shea in Legend (2015)