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The Nelson Mandela statue standing in the garden cost a total of R8 million to construct and weighs 3. Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria. Read Next. 10 Historical Landmarks to See in South Africa Literary icons come in several basic variations. Some are so historically distant and their work so much a product of their age that it's hard to relate to them as a human being. Some produce work that still resonates powerfully to this day, but the personality of the author has been lost to time, leaving Oscar Wilde disconnection. Then there are a literary icons like Oscar Wilde, who left behind not only a body of clever, emotionally powerful and frequently hilarious work but also a plethora of witty, perceptive quotes and observations that make the man behind the words feel real and modern. But what Oscar Wilde makes it so easy to relate to Wilde is Oscar Wilde depressing life story, which was a tale of an immensely talented man dogged by loss and unintended consequences. After all, even though he was skilled with words, he couldn't write enough to ward off death, disease, and betrayal. From a heartbreaking childhood to devastating Oscar Wilde affairs, this is the tragic real-life story of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde had his first encounter with tragedy when his younger sister Isola died unexpectedly after a short illness. Wilde was just 12 years old, and Isola was almost ten. He was very close with her, visited her grave regularly as a child, and he even kept a lock Oscar Wilde her hair in an envelope for the rest of his Oscar Wilde. Even more tragic, the discovery in of a secret journal written by Wilde offers evidence that there was more to Oscar and Isola's relationship. Isola wasn't the only sibling that Wilde lost, though he might not have been aware of his two half-sisters, Emily and Mary. The two girls Oscar Wilde illegitimate and were raised by relatives in order to obscure the scandal. Their host, Andrew Reid, asked one of the sisters to have a final dance at the end of the evening, and her dress somehow caught fire from the candles set up to illuminate the party. Her sister rushed to help her terrified sibling It's very likely that Oscar never even Oscar Wilde of Emily and Mary. Oscar Wilde's mother, Jane, was a celebrated Oscar Wilde in her own right, and she held court at her home with creative people on a regular basis. These salons attracted some of the best and brightest artists and writers of the time. Wilde was frequently there as a child, Oscar Wilde he likely polished his own wit and literary chops at these informal gatherings. It's Oscar Wilde where he met a young woman he described as both Oscar Wilde "exquisitely pretty girl" and as having "the Oscar Wilde perfectly beautiful face I ever saw and not a sixpence of money. The tragic ending of this relationship can also be blamed on Jane's salons, because one of the creative folks who attended on a regular basis was Bram Stoker, a really strange author who would write Dracula two decades later. According to Stoker biographer David J. Skal via The Paris Reviewwhen Wilde went off to school at Oxford, Stoker was a guest of the Wildes over Christmas, and not long afterwards, he and Balcombe were engaged. Wilde was reportedly devastated when he learned that the girl he loved was marrying someone else, though he and Stoker eventually patched things up. Oscar Wilde found love and settled down with a formidable woman, Constance Lloyd. A talented writer in her Oscar Wilde right, Lloyd and Wilde married in She responded to his proposal with a note that said, "As long as I live you shall be my lover," and Wilde began advising all of his friends to get married. Lloyd and Wilde shared a love for fashion and interior decoration, and they made for quite Oscar Wilde stylish couple in London. They had two children, Cyril and Vyvyan, but Vyvyan's birth was reportedly quite difficult for Constance. After that, their connection Oscar Wilde, and Lloyd began spending more and more time away from home, just as the Wildes took in a young man named Robbie Ross It's uncertain when Lloyd realized that her husband was unfaithful. In fact, when Wilde sent another lover — Alfred "Bosie" Douglas — packing after a falling out, it was Lloyd who eventually invited Douglas back into their home and their lives. But it's definitely clear that after Vyvyan's birth, everything changed between Lloyd and Wilde, leading directly to the series of events that would eventually put Wilde in jail and ruin his career. Douglas introduced Wilde to a world of gay prostitutes, Oscar Wilde soon became a regular activity for Wilde. However, Douglas' father pictured was a conservative and outspoken man, and he and Wilde had several confrontations about the writer's relationship with his son, culminating with the Marquess leaving a card for Wilde at the author's club, with a message written on it for all the world Oscar Wilde see that read, "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite' sic. Oscar Wilde was a dangerous accusation, but Wilde had options. Historians note that he could've fled Oscar Wilde Francewhere homosexuality wasn't illegal and just waited for the publicity to fade. But instead, worried about his Oscar Wilde image and urged on by Douglas, he chose to sue Oscar Wilde Marquess for libel. This was a disastrous mistake, Oscar Wilde the only way the Marquess could win was Oscar Wilde prove his allegations, which was very, very easy to do. Wilde had never been particularly discreet, and old Oscar Wilde was more or less the exact opposite of "restrained. The libel trial ended in Oscar Wilde Marquess' favor, and the evidence presented was immediately used to charge Oscar Wilde with gross indecency, a crime often used to prosecute homosexuals. A few months later, Wilde was in prison, and five years later he was dead. And it all could've been avoided if Wilde had taken a vacation. Oscar Wilde will always be remembered for his wit and writing, as well as his imprisonment for "gross indecency" in when he was 41 years old. The charges stemmed from his relationship with Lord Alfred Oscar Wilde, son of the Marquess of Oscar Wilde. See, England had passed a law in making "gross indecency" a crime, and Oscar Wilde was mainly used to prosecute Oscar Wilde and remained on the books until Of course, Wilde's ordeal might have been more bearable if Douglas had been worthy of devotion, but he According to biographer Douglas Murray via The GuardianDouglas Oscar Wilde only failed Oscar Wilde defend Wilde after encouraging him to file the libel lawsuit that led to his downfall, but he then spent the rest of his life working to malign Wilde he referred to his former lover as "the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last years" inpossibly smarting from the devastating letter Wilde wrote while in prison, "De Profundis," which didn't cast Douglas in a good light, to put it mildly. Douglas was also a fierce anti-Semite, and when he wasn't trying to run down Wilde, he was writing about Jewish conspiracies. In the final analysis, if your life is Oscar Wilde to be ruined by a forbidden love, the object of that love should at least be a decent human being. You might imagine that discovering your famous, wildly Oscar Wilde husband had Oscar Wilde having plenty of affairs and cavorting with prostitutes would make someone a little angry Although his wife, Constance Lloyd, seems to have tolerated some of Oscar Wilde's early affairs possibly because they involved artists and even mutual friendsthe revelations and consequences of Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" in drove a wedge between them.