Wynne-Tyson, Javier Marías, Bob Williamson, William Gates and Cedric Boston were all interviewed in the BBC Radio 4 documentary Redonda: The Island with Too Many Kings, broadcast on 22nd May 2007.
Angus Deayton presents the remarkable tale of Redonda, an uninhabited rock in the Caribbean annexed by the British in the 1870s and claimed by competing kings.
You can listen to the full audio documentary here:
In this programme John Wynne-Tyson admits to being an impostor!
King Leo was invited to take part, but unfortunately had to withdraw the day before the interview, due to ill health. A member of the Realm kindly offered his professional services, but these were declined in favour of a voice-over from a previous filmed recording of His Majesty for a BBC 1 programme, “Inside Out” East, transmitted on 30th September 2002.
In the course of the programme, Mr Wynne-Tyson finally admitted to the media that John Gawsworth (King Juan I), did indeed pass the Title Deeds of the Kingship on to John Roberts, (who took the Title of King Juan II). Also he was introduced as Literary Executor for Gawsworth, but chose not to mention that the post was held jointly with Dr Iain Fletcher. However, the descent of the Title of Kingship was endorsed by Professor A Freeman, an original member of John Gawsworth’s court, who affirmed that the present holder of the Title, King Leo, owned all the relevant documents of the succession. (These papers, which date back to MP Shiel, and are in the hands of King Leo’s solicitors, have never been challenged.) This uncomfortable fact, which was undisputed, left Javier Marias and Bob Williamson, to talk their way through the programme, both having supposedly inherited the Kingship from John Wynne-Tyson. A recording of this programme has been placed in the Royal Redondan Archives.
