Harry’s arrival in Nassau was no less cacophonous than you’d expect, as he continued to make enemies in the Bahamas. One would eventually kill him. The murderer stabbed a pillow and sprinkled the feathers from the stuffing over Sir Harry’s body. This part of the murder served two purposes: (1) the feathers acted as kindling to get the fire started and (2) it added that Obeah/Voodoo flavour to steer blame towards a well used scapegoat in history- the Nassau Negro.

Harry attended the Bar Harbor birthday parties, talent shows and dinners, occasionally letting his rough side show. He often ate using only a knife and spat pits and seeds across the banquet table. Nancy had left Cuba by the late 1940s, and lived in Hollywood, California, where she had a long affair with 1950s English Hollywood film and British TV star Richard Greene. They had a daughter, Patricia Oakes. She remained close friends with Greene until his death in 1985. In 1952 she married Baron Ernst Lyssardt von Hoyningen-Huene (adopted cousin of the artist George Hoyningen-Huene, the only son of Baron Barthold Theodor Hermann (Theodorovitch) von Hoyningen-Huene, a German nobleman who had estates in Estonia that were confiscated by the Soviets during World War II and was the German ambassador to Portugal during World War II, [24]). They had a son, Baron Alexander von Hoyningen-Huene. The marriage lasted until 1956. Nancy died in 2005 and was survived by her two children and two grandchildren. In 1898, Oakes left medical school before graduation and made his way to Alaska, at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, in hopes of making his fortune as a prospector. For 15 years, he sought gold around the world, from California to Australia. [3]

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The royal couple had arrived in the Bahamas in August 1940 as virtual exiles, mistrusted by the British government and the Royal Family alike because of their rumoured Nazi sympathies. Findlay, Claude Alexander | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada". dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org . Retrieved 4 September 2019. a b Pain, S.A. (1960). Three Miles of Gold: The Story of Kirkland Lake. Toronto: The Ryerson Press. p.17.

Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (23 December 1874 – 7 July 1943) was a British gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned his fortune in Canada and moved to the Bahamas in the 1930s for tax purposes. Though American by birth, he became a British citizen and was granted the hereditary title of baronet in 1939. Wallis, meanwhile, wrote to her aunt that, “I am afraid there is a lot of dirt underneath… one wonders how far it will all go… I do not think there is a big enough laundry anywhere to take Nassau’s dirty linen.” Christie dismissed Oakes’ house servants. There was only the grounds keeper’s wife, and her elderly mother in a separate staff quarters away from the house.

The trial was set for Oct. 18. The day it opened, yet another figure joined the saga. He was a lawyer who lived only on paper.

Perhaps the glittering wealth on display in Bar Harbor and environs had fueled young Harry’s ambition. Newspapers of the day avidly reported the comings and goings of European nobility, Gilded Age millionaires, Boston Brahmins, and Main Line Philadelphians in the fabulous summer resort. Readers found no detail too small about the fashionable season just two hours from Harry’s home town. No Fortune? Marquis also says it’s highly likely the two Miami cops participated in the cover-up, under direction from the duke.Harry Oakes has a small dinner party at his residence, Westbourne. Four people are there, including Oakes and Christie. At the party in Lyford Cay where my questioning so offended my host, everybody knew that Christie was the guilty man in the case of the murder of Oakes. I was told it repeatedly – though the motives often strayed into the realms of fantasy. In later life the Duke of Windsor avoided all conversation about the death of Oakes and became visibly upset whenever it was innocently alluded to. His verdict on the Oakes murder, when he made his official report to London, was telling. He wrote: "The whole circumstances of the case are sordid beyond description." Sordid beyond description. No one was better placed to make such a judgment. a b "History". jacarandahousenassau.com. Jacaranda House Nassau. 12 May 2011 . Retrieved 13 August 2016. Though the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were admired as icons of style, the Duke would be found wanting on matters of law enforcement. This may sound too good to be true. It may sound like the plot to a best-selling pot-boiler. And it all serves to explain the continuing interest in the murder of Sir Harry Oakes, often referred to, hyperbolically (and hyperbole is in no short supply in the coverage of the murder), as "the crime of the century." (deMarigny 41)