The Second Mrs Henry Lincoln – An Anecdote

7 October 2025


I found out lots of things about Henry Lincoln’s first wife, from various obituaries and genealogy blogs, etc – but nothing about Henry Lincoln’s second wife.

It was Monday, 22 July 1991 and I decided to walk to Rennes-le-Château from where I was lodging nearby. There, inside the ticket office and where another bookshop was situated, I met Celia Brooke. Suddenly the telephone rang – it was only Mrs Henry Lincoln (second wife) – and she poured her heart out to Celia. She explained that she was ringing out of pure despair and desperation and was fed up of her husband being totally obsessed with the subject matter of Rennes-le-Château; it had taken over her husband's life, was ruining their marriage and wanted any guidance about what to do about it. Celia tried to console her by saying that “she herself was a Princess from an island in the ocean” (See Here). Celia was surprised and taken aback by the call. After the telephone call ended Celia gave a sympathetic smile about the whole situation and felt genuinely sorry for Lincoln's wife, because even according to those working at the Saunière Museum in Rennes-le-Château in 1991, Henry Lincoln was considered “way out”. It was later on that he became an accepted “part of the furniture” with the arrival of the Internet and the village booming into a bigger major Tourist Attraction.

This is an anecdote.









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