Mud Slinging

Some of the Dodgier Titles That We Have Come Across

In the course of creating Fake Titles, we have come across some absolutely ludicrous claims from purchasers of ‘titles’, as well as from the sellers; unfortunately some behave in ways that bring little credit to themselves and therefore we felt that it might help you if we highlighted some of those.

‘Lord and Lady’ Bjorn and Maria Teksnes (Shropshire)

This couple own Old Colehurst Manor in Shropshire, a wonderful medieval manor house near Market Drayton that they have lovingly restored, and now hold weddings, residential stays and dinners there. Alas, they also decided to ‘advance’ themselves and bought a name change through ‘Lord’ Robert Farmer; apart from ensuring that they are held up to ridicule by everybody that knows about their sudden elevation, sadly they seem to have acquired a new overbearing manner.

They put Old Colehurst up for sale, but have since removed it from the market, and at the time they insisted that all the staff at Savills, the selling agents, called them Milord and Milady, and the same at Wrekin College where their daughter was at school.

Sir Robert Cowley, 2nd Baron Ardwhallan

Though he has apparently dropped his Barony, it might be interesting to find out the source of his Knighthood as Buckingham Palace and The British Government do not seem to have any record of it. However, he does seem to move around quite a lot in Australia, never staying in one place for long enough to create any permanent friendships, though strangely rather a lot of people seem to be quite glad to say farewell to him.

His associates, such as Warren Clarke Anderson, seem to also boast a similar lack of credibility; Warren claims a “distinguish (sic) [BBA] Hons in International Business Studies, [MBA] Banking & Finance (UK) The Regents University of San Moritz”. The same sort of qualification could be yours for around $500! While Sir or sometimes Dr Andrew Haberfield should be treated with similar caution, especially if any of them offer to raise money for you, but want to be paid an ‘up front’ fee.

I am sure the regulatory authorities would be very interested to hear from anybody with information about ‘Sir’ Robert Cowley, particularly if you have paid him a fee but never succeeded in getting your loan.

Anyone who has dealt with his company Investment Suisse, which he claims is a major Swiss financial institution, might be interested to learn that “Investment Suisse is not authorized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA (nor the former SFBC, FINMA’s predecessor). Investment Suisse is not a legitimate Swiss company, nor is it a bank and has no physical presence in Switzerland”, according to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.

It apparently operates out of a well-known accommodation address on London’s Piccadilly, which seems unusual for such a large financial institution, however, usefully, it does house an escort service among a plethora of other companies.

You might also like to study his involvement with the strange Lichtenburg Foundation and the amazing Princess Maya, Baroness de Haynau, apparently ‘Baron’ Cowley is a Minister of State for the Principality of Lichtenburg, though the place only seems to exist in someone’s imagination, I am sure though that their aims are purely charitable as stated. You might further like to find out more about another gentleman connected to the Foundation, Lord Hankins of Ravensburn, his title seems to have as much credibility as ‘Sir’ Robert’s; they tried to hold a charity dinner in Queensland, Australia at A$1000 a plate to raise funds, but unfortunately for them there were so few takers that it got called off.

Latest News: ‘Sir’ Robert has now threatened me with a Notice of Intention to Commence Criminal Prosecution, however, he seems to have joined forces with a gentleman called Bernie O’Brien, using the notepaper of the Affordable Legal Company. Bernie’s credibility unfortunately seems to be about as great as ‘Sir’ Robert’s, you might be interested to see his recent performance on YouTube, in which he was questioned about where money that investors had given to him for producing business loans had disappeared to.

Lord or sometimes Sir Charles Buchanan Turnor

If you come across a Knightship for sale in an auction, then do not attempt to buy it. Unfortunately on any number of occasions the unwary have purchased ‘Lord’ Turnor’s Field Knightships of the Plantagenet Toxophilites, quite often paying several thousand pounds, including Ian Whyman of South Yorkshire, MD of a demolition company, who coughed up a hefty £7,000 for two at an auction in Malmesbury held by Hilditch Auctioneers, who really didn’t bother to do much checking.

Lord Charles lives in the grandly named East Barkwith Manor in Lincolnshire, actually a small cottage, but seemed unwilling to talk when approached by a reporter from The People. Do avoid him like the plague, and please report any Knightships that you spot being offered for sale either to me or directly to the police.

The Right Hon the Lord Mitford

The most worrying fact about His Lordship’s Website - apparently not live at present, pending a redesign - is that "Lord Mitford maintains a small collection of books related to genealogy and the peerage and in his spare time conducts genealogy and peerage research". Help! Talk about the blind leading the blind.

Though he may well own the two Manorial Lordships of the Mitford family - he is not able to call himself The Right Hon the Lord Mitford, just Mr Mark Mitford, Lord of the Honour of Mitford, and Lord of the Manor of Molesden; and certainly not The Right Hon, the use of that is reserved for peers of the rank of Baron, Viscount or Earl, and Members of Her Majesty’s Privy Council.

I suppose that it was almost inevitable, but one can only assume that Antony Boada, aided by his legal sidekicks Pitts-Tucker & Co, realised that legal threats were not going to work, see Breaking News, so they decided to resort to verbal attack instead - producing an amazing compilation of lies and innuendo to besmirch my good name.

Strangely they have actually accused me of many things that they are guilty of, and, as for the claim of never having been sued, many people would like to, but seem to have great difficulty in reaching Antony Boada to achieve that.

“Earl Of Bradford Caught In Major Scam - Links To Baronage Press Disclosed

The “Right Honourable” Richard, 7th Earl of Bradford, has been caught with his pants down and is not quite as “honourable” as he pretends to be and he is certainly not “right” at all.

Visitors to our website have already been completely informed about the scam being perpetrated by Baronage Press (do not believe this! Editor) in selling phony titles and trying to siphon off our clients and the clients of other vendors of titles through intimidation and extortion. Baronage Press has been a consistent and ardent detractor of British Feudal Investments for several years now and falsely claims they do not sell titles…, which they most certainly do. They want you to believe that they only expose sellers of bogus titles and swear they do not have any interest in selling titles of their own.

Our investigators have now found out that no less than the pompous and self-righteous Earl of Bradford (who has no other claim to expertise on titles of nobility other than the fact that he inherited his earldom - he is actually a pub owner with no legal qualification whatsoever) is part of the Baronage Press scam.

Complicity of Bradford in Scam

The next step in the scam is that they received an e-mail or if possible a phone call from one of Baronage Press’ front companies such as Pegasus Limited, an offshore Guernsey company, and Hogarth’s wife’s, Patricia, tells them that they got by pure chance, a one in a million coincidence, the very same title which the inquirer had bought - but the “real” one - and that it is available for a whopping £250,000.

AND GUESS WHO RE-SELLS YOU THE TITLE THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY PURCHASED LEGITIMATELY FOR A TENTH OF THE COST?… YES, THE EARL OF BRADFORD JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE YOUR TITLE AVAILABLE AND BY “TWISTING” HIS ARM THROUGH THE GOOD GRACES OF BARONAGE PRESS, THE EARL IS WILLING TO SELL IT TO YOU AT THE OUTRAGEOUS PRICE ABOVE MENTIONED.

It is little wonder that when we discovered these facts, the Earl went on the defensive and set up and elaborate website bashing all vendors of titles other than the Manorial Society of Great Britain… which coincidentally Baronage Press also has mentioned as a legitimate vendor of feudal titles.

Of course, quite a number of you have been intelligent enough to hear both sides of the story and once you have known the true facts, you have proceeded to acquire feudal titles through BFI. We thank these wiser and discriminating clients who are not so easily fooled by this trio of bandits who seek to rip the public off in such an outrageous and major way. (Unfortunately the clients are more likely to be sadder and sorry)

It speaks for itself that the Earl of Bradford in his website runs an “exclusive” interview with the editor of Baronage Press, who of course vouches for everything he says. This clearly shows the relationship between the two

Despite all the defamation we are happy to report that British Feudal Investments has never once been sued in its fifteen year history; (This will not be the case for much longer, the noose is closing hence this desperate attempt to justify himself) nor has it ever had to pay monies to avoid and settle any lawsuits outside of court - something which the Manorial Society consistently has had to do and we have been investigated and cleared by the UK Department of Trade an Industry and even received a letter of appreciation from the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad for our help in giving evidence and information related to titles fraud on the internet. Our competitors and detractors claim we are just about to land in jail and they have been claiming this on the internet for over two years now… yet BFI is here to stay and our doors remain open for business as usual.

We have joined a class action lawsuit against Baronage Press and the Earl of Bradford and are seeking remedies. Some of our viewers have asked why we do not pursue the matter more aggressively. Our reply is that lawsuits are a very expensive matter and considering the negligible impact these defamations have had upon our business, we have often decided it was not cost-effective and would consume too much of the time we would rather spend serving you, our clients. Nevertheless, we cannot ignore the impact of any damage to our business and reputation that Bradford, Baronage Press and their financier Manorial Society may cause or may have caused us and we are taking appropriate legal action. (As usual his words speak louder than his actions!)

It is a sorry matter to see someone like the Earl of Bradford stoop so low and sink to such a degraded form of doing business as he is doing with his website. Most readers by now are pretty sick of his and Baronage Press’ modus operandi and indeed one can conclude that the only thing “noble” about the Earl of Bradford is his title… his behaviour is suitable for the gutter and it is probably brazen, thoughtless, and arrogant actions such as the establishment of his website that led to the popular demand by the British people to terminate his and the other hereditary peers’ right to sit and vote in the House of Lords by the present government.

We wish he’d live up to the noble standards he preaches but certainly does not practice.

Additional Warning

Please also note that when you visit the website of Lord Bradford and Baronage Press you get a special treat: a COOKIE… A cookie is planted into your computer without your even knowing it. A cookie traces your every move, letter, e-mail, IM’s, internet searches and browses - even your private banking transactions. Believe it or not Baronage Press in conjunction with their cohort, the Earl of Bradford, have used this private information to extort and blackmail browsers of their website. We know of one case where the duo of Hogarth and Blacker threatened a client in the process of a lawsuit to give to the opposing side full information on all of the client’s bank accounts and properties unless he paid $55,000.

(Evidently, Boada doesn't even know what a "cookie" is, despite the huge number on the Front Page alone of his British Feudal Investments site!! Below is a good site which describes the limits to what a "cookie" can achieve. As you'll see, a "cookie" can NOT access your hard drive, read your emails or follow you around the Internet. They are also not obtained by replying to an email.

[Quote from Webopedia:] Cookies do not act maliciously on computer systems. They are merely text files that can be deleted at any time - they are not plug ins nor are they programs. Cookies cannot be used to spread viruses and they cannot access your hard drive. The cookie will only contain information that you freely provide to a Web site.)

Appalled, the client told us that he had never even seen the Baronage Press website. He did, however, view the website of the Earl of Bradford extensively and did so several times. We think it’s much more than a coincidence that the extortion threat however came from Baronage Press which has long been known to use the cookie device on its victims.

Our private investigators, specialised in computers, confirmed that cookies were being planted by the Bradford website. It becomes further obvious that Bradford passed this information to Baronage Press to complete the hatchet job on the client… If you plan on reviewing their websites please know that this is not the first time we have received this sort of complaint or information about their planting of cookies and subsequent blackmails - also it might do well to remember “never take candy from a stranger”… especially cookies.”

Having finally caught my breath, I would advise you to treat this with the contempt that it deserves, however, it does demonstrate that the truth must be hitting home and really hurting Antony Boada for him to be reduced to sinking to these depths.

Good, but, with luck, he will be feeling even more uncomfortable soon as the law finally starts to catch up with him.