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<\/p>\nKing Charles’s friendship with Jimmy Savile is further confirmed by my disclosure here that after Prince Harry’s birth in 1984 he had been included in a long list of names of potential godfathers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The selection was written by Charles and seen by his private secretary Edward Adeane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adeane was aware that Charles would not listen to any argument against Savile. Having a fractious relationship with Diana, he felt he could not approach Harry’s mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He did discuss it with Sir Alastair Aird, the Queen Mother’s comptroller, who was duly horrified and assured Adeane that the matter would be ‘dealt with’. Savile didn’t make the final six.<\/p>\n
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King Charles’s friendship with Jimmy Savile is further confirmed by my disclosure here that after Prince Harry ‘s birth in 1984 he had been included in a long list of names of potential godfathers. Pictured: Charles, then-Prince of Wales, and\u00a0Sir Jimmy Savile in 1999<\/p>\n
As details of Savile’s crimes emerged following his death in 2011, <\/span>David Cameron<\/span>\u00a0pledged to consider a legal change that honours could be rescinded post-humously. He never got round to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps Charles could rummage around the royal attic and return William and Harry’s Jim’ll Fix It badges to the <\/span>BBC<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n As details of Savile’s crimes emerged following his death in 2011, David Cameron pledged to consider a legal change that honours could be rescinded post-humously. He never got round to it. Pictured:\u00a0David Cameron in 2021<\/p>\n Rabid Remainer Alan Rusbridger, editor of Prospect magazine, must have hoped commissioning fellow anti-Brexiteer Lionel Barber to interview Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey\u00a0would elicit a full-throated condemnation of Britain’s EU exit.<\/p>\n Instead Barber, accused when editor of the Financial Times of masterminding a ‘one-sided and almost hysterical’ campaign to stay in Europe, came away with a partial endorsement of Brexit.<\/p>\n ‘It has actually created opportunities for Britain,’ declared Threadneedle Street’s chief bottle washer.\u00a0French berets aloft to Rusbridger for publishing Legion d’Honneur-wearing Barber’s piece!<\/p>\n Alan Rusbridger, (pictured in June this year) editor of Prospect magazine, must have hoped commissioning fellow anti-Brexiteer Lionel Barber to interview Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey would elicit a full-throated condemnation of Britain’s EU exi<\/p>\n Dame\u00a0<\/span>Judi Dench<\/span>‘s current squeeze, red squirrel breeder David Mills, had hurdles to jump when he first met Judi’s friend, actress <\/span>Helena Bonham Carter<\/span>\u00a0at a London luvvie gathering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ‘She came up and said, “What have you been in recently?” recalls David.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘I said ‘Nothing.’ ‘Well, what have you done then?’ ‘Nothing.’ ‘But you are an<\/span><\/span> actor?’ ‘No.’ ‘Well, what the f*** are you doing here with this lot?’<\/span><\/p>\n Dame Judi Dench’s current squeeze, red squirrel breeder David Mills, had hurdles to jump when he first met Judi’s friend, actress Helena Bonham Carter at a London luvvie gathering<\/p>\n How fares Matthew Rhys’s acting career since his triumph as Perry Mason?<\/p>\n Alas the Welsh thespian has been out of work for seven months as his choosy agent rejects lesser roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n Worse: keeping busy with the school run, he’s discovered that fellow actors \u2013 including Rachel Weisz and\u00a0Emily Blunt\u00a0\u2013 also have kids at the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I’ve been out of work for so long I thought I would grow a moustache so that they might think I’m in work,’ he wails.\u00a0<\/p>\n Look on the bright side, Matt \u2013 if the casting phone doesn’t ring before Christmas you could have a beard worthy of an audition for a Hollywood Santa.<\/p>\n How fares Matthew Rhys’s acting career since his triumph as Perry Mason? Alas the Welsh thespian has been out of work for seven months as his choosy agent rejects lesser roles. Rhys is pictured as Perry Mason<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/22\/76224745-12599815-As_details_of_Savile_s_crimes_emerged_following_his_death_in_201-a-1_1696543075791.jpg\")
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