Sir Ranulph Fiennes

So many family and friends crowd funding for a brave, once strong man. All this because the wife has Power of Attorney. Surely there is a higher being who can step in to protect him from her. There is no reason he should suffer anymore because
of a piece of paper and a scheming wife. She cannot have a heart.

I am surprised the Local Authority have not been involved.

Even though my Mum was self funding and not involved in any way with social services I received a phonecall from them asking where my Mum was and if she was OK.

I suspect a family member contacted the Safeguarding team because they did not know where she was.

It is bizarre behaviour on the part of the wife and sounds like elder abuse, especially with his wife's insistence on providing the medication and a private carer, as he was not registered with a GP local to one of the care homes.

My Dad lived in a care home, and is now in a nursing home, both in England, same local authority.
At each home he was automatically registered with the GP practice that covered every resident in the home.
A GP visits his current care home twice a week and sees any resident who needs them.

Neither home would accept any medication that wasn't prescribed by the GP.
The staff order and administer the medication for every resident.

Some of the details in Ranulph Fiennes' case don't ring true, unless the regulations are different where he is? Was this in Wales?

I am surprised the Local Authority have not been involved.

Even though my Mum was self funding and not involved in any way with social services I received a phonecall from them asking where my Mum was and if she was OK.

Dad is self-funding, but his care home informed social services when he moved in because he needed a Deprivation of Liberty report.
The social worker discussed everything with me in detail, visited him in the home, and spoke to my brother and sister.
It was a very thorough process.

Sorry to repeat myself, but we do currently only have the perspective from one side. Social Services may well be aware, but respect his privacy if that is what he or his wife on his behalf has requested. I’m convinced there is more to this.

Could Sir Ralph have dementia? It often accompanies Parkinson's.

I see even the King has tried to find out his whereabouts. His Equerry was told by the wife “to back off”.

Surely there should be a Missing Persons enquiry now. If he really does not want contact with anybody other than his wife then if she explains that there’s no problem.

It is reported in The Independent that King Charles tried to contact Sir Ranulph through his wife back in February but has been unsuccessful.

This is all very strange indeed.
Even if someone is very ill with Parkinson's, surely that is no reason to hide him from friends and family?

It can and does happen.
I knew of an elderly lady, resident in a nursing home because her children worked abroad; they held POW and visited as frequently as possible.
A close friend (whom I did know) appointed herself unofficially as Carer and gradually insinuated herself in the Nursing home, visiting all day, every day. Gradually she prevented other friends from visiting, claiming the patient did not want visits, began supervising and criticising the way the staff treated her, then tried to persuade her to change Nursing Homes.
At this point other friends managed to make contact with the adult children because they were concerned about not visiting the patient; the children checked with the Home, discovered what had been happening and put a stop to it.
Both were horrified because they knew and trusted the Friend but had never appointed her as Carer; she was doing it through (her own) best intentions, no financial incentive, although it transpired there was a strong element of control involved in the relationship previously, before the lady was ill.

The 'Carer' still cannot understand why the adult children were horrified, because' I was doing it all for (Name).'
I do believe it she did it with the best of intentions, but no concept of how far she had overstepped the boundaries.

If his wife is concerned about his safety surely his home would be one of the easiest places to make safe. There are masses of systems for protection and staffing would be more individual than possible turnover in care homes. Sounds extreme behaviour by his wife.

From the reading I have done, it rather sounds like the wife has issues of her own. It doesn't have to be dementia but could be some form of paranoia. It does rather seem that she has always been very private and her husband almost lived 2 separate lives once she came along. I do think it should be thoroughly investigated and it shouldn't need a legal case for the OPG to investigate urgently as it should with anybody raising these sorts of concerns.

It also seems odd that she can insist on what medication RF takes. Once my Mum entered a Nursing Home, they would not allow anybody to give her any medication which was not properly prescribed, not even over the counter drugs which she had taken for years. Perhaps it is different in a Care Home but I am surprised that there hasn't been an investigation for drugs which were allegedly prescribed for her. That is an offence even if it is for something that is sold over the counter.

Surely this must be being investigated, or at least that is what I imagined was the case. If family and friends are genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of Ranulph I would have thought they could ask the police to do a welfare check.
All it really needs is for his wife to give one clear statement about her husband and permit at least another family member to visit in order to put rumours to bed. After all she is married to a famous man whom the public have great affection for, as well as others in high circles who befriended him along the way. If he were just an ordinary person she might get away with it but in this case is next to impossible.

Narnia, you are right, he is no threat to anyone anymore, however are people a threat to him? He may have death threats on him, for things he partook in decades ago.
Moving him, changing his name, may be protecting his life that some nutter, extremist, foreign entity is actively threatening , what do we, the public know? Nothing….. as it should be.

His wife sounds like a nasty control freak and her son has fallen out with her and said that she's always been very controlling. It sounds like she deliberately alienated all his friends once they got married.

grandMattie

It all sounds very odd, doesn’t it?
Why is his wife behaving like that? And why isn’t the Office of Public Guardian taking notice of the nursing home’s worries?
BTW, the Daily Telegraph broke the investigation results last weekend.

This was reported in the Daily Mail on 19th Sep and I posted a link in the DM thread, but one poster called it a 'muck raking feature' and others said they wouldn't wipe their shoes with the DM.

And here it is Chestnut!

Just came across this story about the disappearance of Sir Ranulph Fiennes and I challenge any of the DM haters to read this to the end and not find it fascinating. It's just the kind of story the DM does so well.
www.dailymail.com/news/article-16143341/Ranulph-Fiennes-living-explorer-year-concerned.html

But where is Sir Ranulph?

If he expressed explicit instructions when he first became ill stating that he did not wish to see friends and family, then why were his family and friends not told that?
Or at least shown the evidence now?

The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph , the Times and the BBC, too. And no doubt others?

Anton Bowring, a fellow adventurer and friend of Fiennes, wrote to King Charles asking for his help with Fiennes's declining health and isolation under the lasting power of attorney held by his wife Louise Millington-Cotes, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The King was said to be “most concerned” by what Bowring had disclosed in the letter, one of his staff is reported to have said at the time.
The King's equerry contacted Bowring to ask how the King could make contact with Fiennes given the situation, and was provided with a phone number for Millington-Cotes who was angry that her details were passed to the Palace.
Instead of being happy for her husband to have such caring friends, it was reported that she sent angry text messages to Bowring, who took part in the Transglobe Expedition, of which the King was patron between 1979 and 1982
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has not been seen in public for two years
She wrote: “I'm contacting a solicitor and the police if you continue this! That was utterly inappropriate! You haven't listened to anything I've explained to you about Ran's feelings about his condition. You are causing him immense distress! Nobody else is???

We knew her first husband - read up about it!

If Ranulph wishes to be left alone and his wife is respecting his wishes that is all fine and dandy. But there are some very bizzare stories circulating which are painting the wife as a rather sinister figure trying to take advantage of her vulnerable husband. She must know this so would advise she either issues a statement with an update of Ranulph’s health and reasons why there is so much secrecy or puts up with being vilified in the press and on social media.
That is annoying for her I imagine if it really is just Ranulph’s wishes that have led to this but for her own sake I think she needs to do this.

"If Ranulph wishes to be left alone and his wife is respecting his wishes that is all fine and dandy." I agree. Plus if he previously indicated this as this wish prior to losing any mental capacity- fine and dandy The background is a history of some estranged relationships in the family .

If the current care home is in the UK- staff and management must have read media stories. Would also be aware of Power of Attorney detail. If Ranulph drafted any Advanced Care Planning documentation with capacity such documents may also set out his listing preferences and requests when needing care in the future. It of course would be confidential to him, his PoA and care staff.

The care home would have statutory responsibility for safeguarding Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Would also have access to Local Authority Safeguarding services if they had any concerns no doubt. They must be seen to be acting in Ranulph's best interests in any potential legal process- step son seeking crowd funding for such legal challenge I understand....

Bizarre and concerning on the face of what's being reported I agree. However who knows what safeguarding considerations are being discussed/or ACP might already in place behind the scenes....wont be disclosed for obvious reasons.

Granless

We knew her first husband - read up about it!

There doesn't appear to be any public information about her previous marriage or the father of her child so that is impossible to do. Perhaps you could enlighten us of your knowledge.

It sure needs investigation.
I wonder if care home staff will now recognise him and leak his whereabouts?

It’ll be about money. It always is.

Icanhandthemback - I’m not going to say anymore other than it is out there for the public to read. Her ex-husband’s name is also mentioned.