Marcus Parks

He was great at it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How to manipulate people.

Yeah.

By the end of the 80s, Jimmy Savile had unrestricted access to the royal palaces and once boasted of popping into Buckingham Palace after completing the London Marathon to have a shower and then afterward tea with the queen.

Well, we do know that it is that he could show up at... He could basically show up almost anywhere in England and talk his way in.

Unless it was like a top-secret military facility, then he could talk his way into any royal palace.

He also never tried.

He never tried.

Who knows?

Well, Savile was so trusted by Prince Charles that Charles actually called Savile in to be a marriage counselor to, in a word, fix his broken marriage to Diana, even though Savile was notoriously single his entire life.

Saville, however, took the opportunity of this access to lick the arm of one of Charles's female clerks just before a so-called counseling session.

The clerk, just like the hospital staff at Stoke Mandeville, was told not to say anything about the assault because Saville was there on an important mission to patch up things between, quote, the boss and the bossette.

And nothing was more important than that.

Now, as far as Savile's relationship with Princess Diana went, it seems like it was one way in public and another in private.

In 1987, Savile invited Diana to help him unveil a new MRI scanner at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

And Savile certainly played up the role of Jester with Princess Di in public.

He made her laugh however he could.

He wore a funny T-shirt that said, for sale, and she, you know, playfully slapped him like, oh, you're so funny.