Here are Oscar and Bosie in May 1893 posing at the studio of the photographer Gillman & Co. of Oxford, whose establishment was at 107 St Aldate’s Street. That location today is a Ladbrokes Off Track Betting Shop.

This well known picture is seemingly unposed: the two are both smoking and seemingly distant—perhaps between arguments. 

But upon inspection you’ll see that, in keeping with their lives, all was not as it seems.

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