Lord Alfred Douglas Wilde", both released in 1960, Douglas was portrayed by John Neville and John Fraser respectively. In the 1997 British film "Wilde", Douglas was portrayed by Jude Law. In the upcoming 2018 film "The Happy Prince", he will be portrayed by Colin Morgan. Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 187020 March 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet, translator, and political commentator, better known as the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own
Lord Alfred Douglas series of articles alleging that a "powerful individual in the Admiralty" had alerted the Germans at the Battle of Jutland that the British had broken their code, and that Winston Churchill had falsified a report in return for a large sum of money from Ernest Cassel who thereby profited; in May 1921 Douglas would also insinuate that Herbert Earl Kitchener had been murdered by the Jews. Douglas would cease to be editor after issue 67 in 1921 after a row with Spencer. He then produced a short lived, almost identical, rival magazine called "Plain Speech" in 1921 with Herbert Moore