Being a new author and being so warmly welcomed by David, I would like to start with a friendly greeting to everyone who is associated with this wonderful website of our common friend Errol Flynn, the immortal idol we all love.  He was something special to all of us in one way or another.  Each of us has a different reason why he is so exceptional to us, but whatever the reason he was unique indeed.

There are only very few men born, if ever, with his charisma, his looks, his magnetism, his magic spell, his outstanding personality, in particular his disarming smile, his sparkling eyes and so many special talents and attributes.  A gifted man indeed!  He had it "All" in one magnificent package in spite of his abusive and adverse childhood.  His parents never realized what a treasure of a child they were blessed with.  A "Happy Home" was foreign to him.  He was a most intelligent child what we call today a "gifted child" and he was, due to the conditions he lived in, ready to make up his own mind.  Right or wrong, he did what he thought was best as valuable parental guidance, in particular for a gifted child was absent.  Errol suffered all his life of these traumatic experiences and that in silence.  He would never open up his inner most self to anybody.  He should have, but he avoided that step intensely as he thought it would be interpreted as a weakness or may give an edge to an opponent. 

All he ever wanted is being loved, respected, and accepted by his parents, like any child. 
Most of his life he was left alone to his own devices   Left alone at various boarding schools, in and out of the country, which he hated.  Away from friends and familiar surroundings, this is very hard to take for a child in the tender and formative years.  Errol being a Gemini, loneliness is like poison to them and he was so much alone in his young years. 

Through all these negative aspects in his life it was totally natural that he became somewhat a rascal, even a hell-raiser and why not?  Did anybody give him stability, dependability, or positive attention?  No!  But, whatever the case, he was the most lovable rascal ever!  Nobody could ever be cross with him and if - not for long!

Through hardship and in spite of all he made a Man out of himself and what a man.  Most of all he became a "Man's Man" and an "Australian Man's Man" on top of it.  Australian men are different and so was he, hard men but often chivalrous, however they call a spade a spade in more ways than one.  This aura surrounded Errol all his life and talking about "Man's Man" - Errol was it! 

A Man's Man is a class act - an alpha male like Errol!  He was always well groomed and dressed to win.  He was educated (via schooling and as an autodidact), worldly and a gentleman.  He was always polite, but never a pushover.  He knew how to stand his grounds.  He would swear when he needed to, he would be upset and frustrated, but he always tried to control his temper.  He could handle is liquor.  He would admit his faults and errors.  He did not have to belong to any race, creed, or color he automatically respected and understood the fundamental principles of humanity.  He did what ever he could or thought made him a good person in order to have self-respect.  He was very proud; he hated mediocrity, his aim always was to achieve excellence, but not perfection and he knew the important difference between the two. 

For all these reasons, women wanted him and men wanted to be him!