Netflix's new bombshell documentary titled "Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story," released last Tuesday, shakes the foundations of the British monarchy as it explores (among other things) Prince Charles' relationship with Jimmy Savile, the eccentric BBC presenter who sexually abused men, women and children for years. According to the documentary, the royal family consulted Savile whenever they wanted to boost their popularity or cover up some of their... sins.
The BBC star, who has been described as "Britain's worst paedophile", was unofficially and for many years Prince Charles' confidential adviser. What if the producer of the series points out that Charles was deceived by Savile like most people in Britain? The Prince of Wales' blunder amounts to an unforgivable error for most ordinary mortals...
Who was Jimmy Savile
Sir Jimmy Savile (1926 - 2011) was an English DJ, a hugely popular television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jimll Fix It. He raised around £40 million for charity and was widely praised for his charity work. However, after his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against him, leading police to conclude that he was a paedophile and had sexually abused hundreds of people, even placing him at the top of the list of criminals with such activities in Britain. There were such allegations during his lifetime, but they did not proceed because they were either ignored by the authorities, not believed or he had strong backs.
In October 2012, almost a year after his death, an ITV documentary launched an investigation into sexual abuse by Savile. The horrific revelation, which almost monopolized the media, led to a rapidly growing number of allegations of sexual abuse and accusations against public bodies for a cover-up or dereliction of duty. Scotland Yard launched a criminal investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse by Savile, with his activities spanning six decades, and described him as a "predatory sex offender" and later said more than 400 investigations were being carried out across the country, based on the testimony of 300 of his potential victims. In June 2014, investigations into Savile's activities in 28 NHS (National Health Service) hospitals concluded that he had sexually abused staff and patients aged between 5 and 75 for several decades. He had abused at least 72 children, with his first victim in 1959 and his last in 2006.
Charles' personal correspondence with Savile with instructions to royal "shippers"
Charles and other members of the royal family had no idea that Savile's philanthropy was a cover for decades of abuse. "Charles was misled, as we all were," the director of the Netflix documentary, Rowan Deacon, told the Times, adding: "The letters show the trust Prince Charles placed in Jimmy Saville. He was trying to appeal to the British people, wanting to modernise his image. And he saw Jimmy Savile as his helper in that. In retrospect, this proved disastrous."
Prince Charles' personal correspondence with Savile, arguably the most famous and popular person in Britain at the time, has been described as disastrous for Charles and had a terrible effect on him. Alison Bellamy, a journalist in Yorkshire who became Savile's biographer, said: "Jimmy Savile was an unofficial chief adviser to the Prince of Wales. Charles had found his connection with the people of Britain."
In 1987, in his first letter, Charles wrote to Savile : "I may be wrong, but you are the one who knows what's going on. What I really need is for you to use your influence and connections to make a list of suggestions from you. I want so badly to reach parts of the country that others can't reach." So Savile was asked to guide the future king between 1986 and 2006 on issues ranging from public speaking to family matters. At the time, the BBC star used his fame, wealth and fundraising for the NHS as a means to sexually abuse anyone he wanted.
Charles wrote to Savile to ask him to help him with the troubled image of the Royal Family and to boost his own profile in a series of letters and postcards over 20 years. The Prince of Wales praised his "straightforward common sense" and asked him for advice on improving his speeches and help with public visits to charities. Charles also asked Savile, who was knighted in 1990, to advise his sister-in-law Sarah, the Duchess of York, and her gaffe-prone and scandal-prone husband, Prince Andrew.
Aware of his connections to the charity... industry, Prince Charles solicited Savile's suggestions for public visits, unaware that these were the places the TV personality would use to attack his victims.
The future king wrote to DJ after a series of bad public appearances in the 1980s, especially after the air tragedy in Lockerbie, Scotland (ed. On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up by a bomb placed in a cassette player in the baggage compartment over Lockerbie while on a London-New York flight. The explosion ripped through the fuselage and the plane went down in flames almost in the centre of the small town, killing 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 Lockerbie residents). Then, Prince Andrew, Duke of York said - in an incredible verbal blunder - to visit Lockerbie, where 270 people were killed: "I suppose statistically something like this might happen at some point of course it affects the community but only to a very small extent."
In a 1989 manuscript called "Instructions for members of the Royal Family and their staff", Savile writes to Charles: "There should be an 'incident room' with several independent telephone lines, tele-text etc. The Queen should be informed in advance of any proposed action by members of the family." He wrote that this crisis unit would be run by "a specialist person with considerable experience in such matters", adding that he could speak with confidence on such matters, saying: "I enter St James's Palace and Buckingham Palace on a regular basis." The prince incorporated some of the advice and responded to Savile: "I enclose a copy of my memorandum on crisis management, which incorporates your views and which I showed to my Father, who in turn forwarded it to the Queen."
He licked Diana's hand and was "pushed"
Royal family experts said Savile was a regular visitor to various palaces and "hanging around Diana's apartment" at Kensington Palace. He would kiss the hands of the secretaries and "rub his lips" on their arms as a greeting. Journalist Richard Kay - an expert on Palace affairs - said Savile once licked Princess Diana's hand and she pushed him, telling him later: "It was a very disgusting thing."
After Savile's death it was revealed that he allegedly advised Charles in the late 1980s as his marriage to Diana went from bad to worse. In 1989 Diana was recorded saying to her childhood friend James Gilbay: 'Jimmy Savile phoned me yesterday and said: "I'm just calling, girl, to tell you that His Grace the Nose [PRINCE CHARLES] has asked me to come over to help the redhead [THE DUCHESS OF YORK] get out of trouble, and I'm just letting you know, so you don't find out through her or through him. I hope you're okay."
Going to hospitals
In the documentary, the heir to the throne , Prince Charles, praises the paedophile in 1983 as the only person in Britain who believed he could raise £10 million for Stoke Mandeville Hospital in three years. Patients and staff working on the wards at Buckinghamshire Hospital said they saw members of the royal family all the time, including Princess Diana, who came with Saville regularly for visits. One patient recalled how once the Princess of Wales asked her, "What do you do all day?" and then Savile jumped up and said: "Watching porn", making Diana blush and smile awkwardly.
The Duke of Edinburgh was also a regular visitor to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. On one occasion, the camera caught him and Saville giggling as the Top of the Pops host chose to drive the Queen's husband to the local train station, causing a panic among royal protection officers.
A worker at the hospital told the Netflix documentary, he said: "They [THE ROYAL FAMILY] have always asked his opinion on things. I would tell him, 'I don't know who they think you are.' We would see them and hear them on the phone with Savile, but they would also come here with him."
Shouldn't he be writing letters for the good of the throne?
In general, Charles' letters have burned him in the past. The Prince of Wales was forced to promise not to meddle in public affairs when he became king after a series of high-profile controversies. In 2015 he had to defend his decision to write a series of letters to government ministers, some of which are known as the "black spider memos", (so named because of the use of black ink in his handwriting). In 2004 and 2005 it emerged that he wrote 27 memos containing policy demands and various comments which were sent to the then Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cabinet. And between 2010 and 2015 he had 47 meetings with cabinet ministers and 21 with junior ministers - at a rate of more than one a month. Some of his notes were bizarre, including a personal appeal to protect the rare Patagonian toothfish from an illegal fisherman 10,000 miles away!
In a scathing attack on the Royal Family, Mark Williams-Thomas, whose ITV documentary led to the exposure of Savile's actions as a paedophile and serial sex offender, speaking to GB News, said of the Royal Family: 'They will do what royals always do, which is to ostrich around and make no comment at all. We have looked very carefully at the relationship between Prince Charles and Savile and other members of the family. Savile went very often to Buckingham Palace and sat there for hours enjoying his tea. He was very, very close to Prince Charles and even Lady Diana.
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