Prince Charles relied on Jimmy Savile as key aide who sat in on meetings and read over his speeches, claims controversial new biography
- Biography says Prince Charles deferred to Jimmy Savile for advice
- 'Charles: The Heart of a King' claims the Prince asked the now disgraced paedophile to read over his speeches and make any suggested changes
- The pair struck up a friendship in the 1970s after meeting at wheelchair sports charities and Prince asked him for advice in the 1980s and 1990s
- Previously claimed he asked Savile for advice about his marriage to the late Princess Diana, but Clarence House has denied the claim
- Controversial biography by Catherine Mayer also claims Prince Charles no longer wants to promote British arms sales in the Middle East
- The Prince tells ministers he 'doesn't like being used to market weaponry'
- Savile died in 2011 and was exposed as a prolific paedophile who abused his celebrity status and hospital contacts to abuse hundreds of victims
PUBLISHED: 03:42, 3 February 2015 | UPDATED: 20:15, 3 February 2015
Prince Charles asked paedophile Jimmy Savile for advice on health policy and to read over his speeches, a controversial new biography has claimed.
The Prince of Wales and Savile were known to have had a working relationship after they met in the late 1970s while supporting wheelchair sports charities and is has long been claimed that the Prince relied on the now disgraced DJ for advice during the 1980s and 1990s.
In the biography, Charles: The Heart of a King, it is claimed that Savile was regular visitor to Highgrove and St James' Palace and was once at a meeting at Highgrove being held to discuss closures to emergency services.
The Prince of Wales asked prolific paedophile Jimmy Savile for advice about health policy and to read over his speeches and make any suggested changes to them, asking for his advice since they met in the 1970s
The book, by journalist Catherine Mayer, also claims the Prince once deferred to Savile to look over a speech he was due to give and make any changes, the Telegraph reported.
'One source tells of an occasion when the Prince asked his famous occasional adviser to read over a speech he was due to give on a topic unrelated to health care or any field in which Savile had expertise,' wrote Mayer. She said Savile did not make any changes on that occasion.
The book sheds new light on the extent to which the Prince relied on Savile as his confidant.
Savile died in 2011 and was exposed as a prolific paedophile, using his celebrity status to prey on child victims. He is said to have abused hundreds of victims, taking advantage of having free run of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Broadmoor and Leeds General Infirmary.
The book also deals with Prince Charles' relationships, revealing that he had doubts about his wedding to Princess Diana and on the eve of the ceremony said 'I can't do it.'
Sarah Goodall, a former Lady Clerk to the Prince previously claimed in an autobiography that Savile gave marriage guidance counselling to the Prince and Princess of Wales. This claim was denied by Clarence House........
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3. He talks to the dead, not his plants - Prince Charles and his Ouija board
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The Prince’s famous comment that he likes to talk to his plants at Highgrove is dismissed by Mayer as a throwaway joke, but she claims he does go to his garden to talk to the dead.
He was so affected by the loss of his mentor Earl Mountbatten in an IRA bombing in 1979 that it “made him want to die too”, and “fell into a despair” following the death of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, in 2002.
Despite his faith, and belief in the afterlife, “Charles never quite relinquishes his grief”, Mayer says. “He fills his domains with little shrines and memorials; he goes into his gardens not to talk to the plants but to the deceased.”
In doing so, he hopes to keep the Queen Mother, Mountbatten “and a host of other departed spirits alive in his heart”.
The garden at Highgrove includes a sanctuary made of stone, clay and barley straw, with a wood burning stove, built by the Prince “to geometric principles which he considers sacred”. Above the door is an inscription in Pictish, the language of an ancient British tribe, which translates as “Lighten our darkness we beseech thee, o Lord”.
Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, consecrated it in 2000 and described it as a hermitage where the Prince reads the Philokalia, a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries for the contemplation of monks at Mount Athos in Greece, the home of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Lucia Santa Cruz would not be surprised at his choice of reading matter: she suggests that Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, which she persuaded him to read at university, may be the only novel he has ever read.
“He said he liked [the novel] but he never wanted to read another one, I don’t think. He always wanted to stick to history or essays,” she told Mayer.
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