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Tasha Hall & Sian Traynor

Camilla's East Lothian cousin found dead in hotel room following huge divorce battle

A Scottish relative of the Duchess of Cornwall has been found dead in his hotel room after one of the longest divorces in the country.

Charles Villiers, from East Lothian, is a distant cousin of a Camilla, with the news of his death confirmed this week by police in London. Discovered by a housekeeper working for the Durrants Hotel in Marleybone, emergency services had raced to the exclusive hotel on Thursday, August 18.

Believed to have taken his own life, the 59-year-old was known to have been part of a long-running divorce with his former wife Emma Villiers, that saw a huge legal battle take place.

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