He is a brash playboy who has admitted to a rampant cocaine addiction and whose godfather was a notorious ex-crime boss. But despite leading a life of hedonistic excess, James Stunt, the ex-husband of Formula 1 heiress , inveigled his way into the very highest of royal circles. Astonishingly, he was able to forge a close association with the King when he was still Prince of Wales.Perhaps predictably, however, it was a relationship that ended in acute embarrassment when Charles, whom Stunt had loaned a series of supposed masterpiece paintings, was embroiled in an audacious fake art scandal first exposed by this newspaper.Now, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Stunt's former butler John Gilmour has lifted the lid on how gold bullion dealer Stunt, who also donated £140,000 to the Prince's charities, was repeatedly welcomed at royal palaces and won the unlikely friendship and affection of the future King.
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