Unknown body in the river: The British aristocrat fell into the Danube!

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The body of a British aristocrat was found in the Danube river after the man fell from the Chain bridge, as hvg.hu reports.

We have previously reported about the case when the identity of the man was still unknown. Now, as the DailyMail writes, the man who was found dead later was a member of an aristocrat family.

As we have written earlier, the eye-witnesses of the whole story saw three people climbing up to the bridge, but there was only one who went up until the high point from where he fell. His friends seemed to be encouraging the person to climb even further when the tragic event happened. Back at the time of the report, it was still unclear who the man might be.

Now, the DailyMail found out that he was the grandchild of the Liberal Party’s leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, who fought together with Winston Churchill in World War I.

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Archibald Sinclair, former Secretary of State for Air. Photo: Wikipedia

Sir Archibald Sinclair was an influential man, a friend of Churchill and later secretary of state under the PM’s turn in office. In contrast to this, his grandson was much of a hedonistic character: he was friends with several other descendants of rich British families but he also drank hard and did a lot of drugs.

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