I recently noticed that the Wikipedia page about Charles Wells contains a comment that he went to the United States and died in Sacramento in 1914.This is plainly incorrect, and…
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Charles Wells- better known as “the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo” – was a complex character. He broke the law many times yet he clearly had a…
Journalist Helen Brown, writing in the Financial Times, reveals the extraordinary history behind the song ‘The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo’. It was written in 1891, soon…
This time it’s not the British royals who come under scrutiny in connection with the Monte Carlo Casino. Instead it’s the Monaco royal family. In 1889 – just a couple…
Queen Victoria often visited the French Riviera but – as described in my book, ‘The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo‘ – she considered that the Casino in…
In The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo I briefly mention (in a footnote) that our present monarch, King Charles III, is related – albeit distantly – to…
The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo – Charles De Ville Wells – perpetrated several frauds during his career. His biggest scam was to set up a phony…
In my most recent blog posts I noted that just before his first and most successful trip to Monte Carlo, Charles Wells placed a small-ad in The Times requesting a…
Charles Wells claimed on several occasions that he had developed a unique system for winning at Monte Carlo, though naturally he did not go into any great detail. He is…
In my book, The Man who broke the Bank at Monte Carlo there’s a mystery that has never been entirely solved. In late July the man who broke the bank,…