What is it like to have seven husbands at the same time?
Emily Horne, a former AV actress from the UK, has been called "Britain's most notorious bigamist".
Over the course of more than a decade, she married seven men.
In order to pedal N boats, she not only used a pseudonym but also made up various versions of her life. Even if she was later repeatedly sentenced for bigamy, she still couldn't stop her "stamp collecting" addiction.
In December 1996, Horne officially embarked on her path to "unlimited marriage".
The day after turning 18, she and her first husband, Paul Rigby, registered their marriage in York.
The two have been classmates and have also experienced sweet love. At the time, Paul described his wife as a "wonderful person."
However, a beautiful personality is only an illusion. The happy couple did not last long, and the two broke up after only a few months.
Paul was sent to work in the field, and they gradually lost contact but never got divorced.
However, Horne does not care about the legal constraints at all, and she immediately devotes herself to the next marriage.
In 1999, she reinvented her own life and married a retail loan officer named Sean Cunningham under the pseudonym of Emily Lecont and as a physicist.
The two meet at a bar, and at first, Cunningham thinks Horne is different from the other girls.
She is intelligent, talkative, and can catch up on almost any topic, and when the two are together, she puts 100% of her attention on herself.
Cunningham was completely overwhelmed, and the two immediately fell in love. Just a few weeks after getting along, Horne asked to get married.
Cunningham resisted somewhat, but Horne kept pressuring with rhetoric such as religious beliefs, a miserable family lineage mixed with truth and falsehood, and pregnancy.
Eventually, Cunningham agreed to marry and became Horne's second husband. And he was kept in the dark, not knowing that this marriage was not legally counted.
Unexpectedly, Horne did not cherish this relationship that she had painstakingly deceived.
After marriage, she instantly changed her attitude and began to stay at night and lie one after another.
Cunningham sensed the problem, and in order to end the pain, he decided to work in another city to escape everything.
Horne disagreed, and the two broke up...
But Horne isn't too sad, and she then falls in love with Cunningham's friend Simon Thorpe.
Around this time, Horne became a model and AV actress, occasionally offering sex in private to make money.
Horne did it again, first pretending to be bitterly out of love, and then fabricating the lie that her sister died of drug use in an attempt to win sympathy.
The friend, Simon, quickly takes the bait, but when Horne asks for marriage on the grounds of pregnancy, he doesn't say yes.
Out of revenge, "Queen of the Sea" Horne turned her target to Chris Barrett, a 21-year-old website designer.
To hook Barrett, Horne came up with a new character for herself. This time she became an account manager, while her father was a retired Army major.
（Chris Barrett）
At this time, her second husband, Cunningham, returned.
At this time, his job was resigned, his family was sick, and his house could be taken away, and the whole person was very miserable.
Cunningham accused Horne of ruining her life, and for compensation or what, Horne came up with a rather ridiculous solution – she rented Cunningham's house with her current boyfriend Barrett and paid him rent.
Cunningham was forced to agree, and since then, Horne has lived in the same house as her current boyfriend and ex-husband...
The cruel Horne also married Barrett in the house, making him her third husband.
And Cunningham looked at all this, secretly sad.
However, Horne was soon met with retribution when she was reported to York police for her actions, and she was warned in August 2001.
It's just that in the face of Horne's crazy "stamp collecting" addiction, this warning is not worth mentioning.
She immediately broke up with her third husband, Barrett, and then met James Matthews, a 34-year-old train security officer.
The two met on the train, and the sexy Horne immediately caught each other's eyes and went to his house for the night that night.
In Matthews' eyes, Horne is very charming and extremely open about sex. Not long after the two were together, she texted and proposed to herself.
Matthews readily agreed, and soon became her fourth husband.
（James Matthews）
But Horne certainly can't rest on his laurels.
Four months later, she got together with her husband's friends again and moved into someone's house.
Only this time, Matthews did not swallow his words like previous husbands, and he went to the police to report the matter.
So in 2004, the Ipswich Criminal Court sentenced Horne to six months in prison for bigamy...
After her release from prison, Horne broke off all of her previous male partners. But that doesn't mean she's going to stop there.
In 2007, she married 25-year-old salesman Ashley Baker and had a fifth husband.
The two met at a massage parlor in Oldham, where Horne happened to be working.
This time, Horne did not make up his life, but used honest tactics instead.
When they set off for their honeymoon in Scotland, Horne voluntarily confessed her previous convictions. But at the same time, she slyly lied that she had lung cancer.
Baker was shocked to hear this, but given his wife's illness, he accepted everything kindly.
（Ashley Baker）
But the law does not accept it.
Two years later, Horne was charged again and sentenced to ten months in prison.
However, because she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and said she had bipolar disorder, the court decided to postpone the execution for two years.
In court, Horne reflected on her actions in public: "I really regret causing harm to the man I married. ”
But as it turned out, it was all acted.
In 2010, IT worker Stuart Allen fell in love with Horne.
The two were supposed to get married, but Horne did not change, hanging Allen while secretly flying to the United States to marry Fred Miller, a police officer she met through online dating, her sixth husband.
The marriage certainly won't last, and in 2011, Horne met her seventh husband, Craig Hadwin, on a dating site and got married in Scotland.
After marriage, Horne, who was addicted to sedatives and painkillers, tried to trick a doctor into prescribing drugs to her under the guise of her husband, and was arrested and tried.
The court eventually found her guilty, but the sentence was postponed to await a psychiatric evaluation of her.
Later, in March 2012, she was given a 12-month period of community surveillance control.
In these two years, Horne's first and only legal husband, Paul, finally found her and asked for a divorce.
He said he had been looking for Horne for seven years and had no idea where she was.
He also hopes to end the relationship as soon as possible so that he can move on to the next relationship.
Since then, the "most notorious bigamy in Britain" seems to have faded from the news and the public.
It wasn't until the last two days that a victim named Wayne Harper revealed some new details to the media.
When Horne ended her fifth marriage, Harper dated her.
Although Horne was being reviled for bigamy at the time, Harper felt that people make mistakes, and as long as Horne was loyal to her from now on, he was willing to support her.
In interviews with the media, Harper has always praised Horne for being beautiful and charming and loves to read.
The two met at a hospital where something was wrong with their bodies.
After being discharged from the hospital, Horne said she had nowhere to go and immediately moved into Harper's house.
She repeats her tricks and begins to concoct a tragic past to gain sympathy.
When asked about her family, she lied that her surviving father had died, while her sister's cause of death was no longer drug use, but meningitis.
Harper's sister and mother both see that Horne has a problem and think she is a predator who likes to sell misery to win over men as heroes. But the Harper authorities are obsessed.
Sure enough, they dated for a year and a half, and then Horne still split his legs...
(Wayne Harper and Horne in an interview with the media)
Until now, no one could tell exactly where Horne's addiction to marriage came from.
Her defense attorney has said Horne is suffering considerably because of mental illness.
Her father said she was trying to create the life she wanted with lies and glorified truths.
Because Horne is addicted to lying and always flashes her words in interviews, her stories are always mixed with truth and falsehood, shrouded in a layer of fog.
I only hope that in the future, she can face her real life and not repeat the mistakes of the past...