The Three Trials That Destroyed Oscar Wilde

It took exactly three trials and less than four months to turn the most celebrated writer in England into a convicted criminal. This Deep Dive walks through the libel case Oscar Wilde brought against the Marquess of Queensberry, the courtroom collapse that followed, and the two criminal trials that ended in a two year sentence of hard labor. This is the full story behind everything this week's Shorts only gestured toward. Subscribe to Illuminated Infamy for the dark, forbidden, and hidden history nobody taught you. dark history, forbidden history, hidden history, strange history, oscar wilde, oscar wilde trial, marquess of queensberry, lord alfred douglas, victorian scandal, illuminated infamy, forbidden literary history, victorian literature, gross indecency, edward carson #darkhistory #forbiddenhistory #oscarwilde #oscarwildetrial #victorianscandal #illuminatedinfamy #forbiddenknowledge #strangehistory #weirdhistory #secrets #historyfacts