A former aide of Prince Charles will lift the lid on the heir to the throne‘s close friendship with Jimmy Savile, in a new book chronicling his time with the royals.
The Queen’s ex-Press Secretary Dickie Arbiter is set to reveal in his new book how Jimmy Savile’s behaviour when he visited Prince Charles’ official home at St James’s Palace was a cause for “concern and suspicion”.
He claims the paedophile used to rub his lips up the arms of the prince’s young female assistants as a greeting.
Savile is understood to have visited Prince Charles’ official London residence several times in the late 1980s when he was acting as a ‘marriage counsellor’ between Charles and Diana.
A spokesman for the Prince of Wales previously confirmed he and Savile formed a friendship in the late 1970s through their work with wheelchair sports charities. Charles led tributes to Savile when he died.
But Arbiter once said of Savile: “He would walk into the office and do the rounds of the young ladies doing secretarial work, taking their hands and rubbing his lips all the way up their arms if they were wearing short sleeves.”
In his new book, Arbiter is set to reveal secrets about Charles’ relationship with Diana and the breakdown of two other royal marriages – to the fury of Prince Charles.
A palace source said: “Charles is furious. This man was a trusted friend.”
Arbiter, now 73, stood by Prince Charles during the bitter breakdown of his marriage to Diana and his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
He was also in office when Diana was killed and witnessed the breakdown of two other royal marriages.
But he is set to hang out the Royal Family’s dirty laundry – and be the first Buckingham Palace press officer ever to spill the beans on what he witnessed behind closed doors.
