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Charles’ friendship with disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile is examined in a new Netflix documentary that has uncovered letters between the two.

Savile, who was exposed as a paedophile following his death in 2011 at age 84, is the subject of a new special Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story.

Letters obtained by the filmmakers, which were written between 1986 and 2006, showed Prince Charles sought advice from the radio and TV personality, The Times reported today.

According to the outlet, the late BBC presenter wrote a media relations “handbook” for the heir to the British throne. Some advice suggested by Savile was later shown to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Fox News reports.

The first of the letters, dated January 14, 1987, was a handwritten note from Charles, now 73. It said: “Perhaps I am wrong, but you are the bloke who knows what’s going on. What I really need is a list of suggestions from you. I so want to get to parts of the country that others don’t get to reach.”

In one correspondence, Charles sought guidance on how to deal with Prince Andrew’s insensitive comments about the 1988 Lockerbie disaster, a terrorist plane bombing that killed everyone aboard as well as 11 people on the ground in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland.

n 1989, Charles also asked for suggestions on “useful morale-boosting visits, etc. to worthwhile groups, places, projects and so on that don’t get enough attention”.

In another letter, dated December 1989, Charles asked Savile to meet with Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew’s wife at the time.

“I wonder if you would ever be prepared to meet my sister-in-law – the Duchess of York?” Charles wrote. “Can’t help feeling that it would be extremely useful to her if you could. I feel she could do with some of your straightforward common sense!”

More than 450 allegations of sexual assault and abuse have been made against Savile. The allegations followed Savile long before his death. In 2013, British police released a transcript of an interview with Savile in which he vehemently denied allegations of sexual abuse and said his accusers were only after money.

Savile told officers he had “no need to chase girls” or “take liberties with them,” because as a host of popular TV shows, “what you don’t do is assault women, they assault you”.

Reports also emerged suggesting that he participated in acts of necrophilia, gaining access to the mortuary of Leeds General Infirmary where he worked as a volunteer porter.

According to The Times, an anonymous letter was sent to police in 1998 that said Savile “thinks he’s untouchable because of the people he mixes with”. That included Savile’s relationship with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who lobbied for him to be knighted in 1990.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/prince-charles-letters-to-paedophile-jimmy-savile-exposed/news-story/c375d2819ee308c272851075c6b473d6