The ghastly truth of one mans mad obsession with his public image, and the hapless artist caught in his clutches.
Few people are aware that His Majesty King Jeremy, while living, was disabled with the loss of his right hand and normally wore an advanced prosthetic hand. This was a closely guarded secret that, until now, has been kept hushed up. That is, until the story of torture was made public by the Royal artist who suffered while painting his official portraits.
Today we all know the visual image of The Ghost of King Jeremy as this:
But this is not the original image! Few people comment on the empty sleeve, and with good reason. His Majesty was very sensitive about his missing hand, and even more so about his prosthetic. When the official portrait was made the famous painter Scott Alexander insisted on having the hand properly portrayed in the picture. Then, when the painting was completed, His Majesty's ghost was very disappointed at the rendition of the prosthetic hand and asked that it be removed. Scott Alexander refused. He was placed on the palace dungeon and tortured until he relented.They subjected me to fingernails on a chalkboard. They forced me to drink American beer. Finally, they made me listen to Vogon poetry! I thought the torment would never end.But, unbeknownst to the King, Mr. Alexander did NOT simply retouch the canvas. He totally repainted it from memory on a new canvas, and hid the original. Now, for the first time ever, the original painting can be shown. With the death of King Jeremy the threat of more Vogon poetry is no longer real and Mr. Alexander has released exclusively to TMI the rights to show the original painting.
-Scott Alexander
The appalling level that one man would go to to hide his disability from the world is incredible, but you can see it for yourself above. TMI hopes that the remaining world leaders learn from the tragic suffering of Scott Alexander at the hands of a mad man and never again stoop to such lows.
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