So the old reprobate is gone at last.
A blackguard with an amazing ability to win friends and influence people.
Mind you he worked hard at it!
In the seventies when I was working in a then very chic restaurant called Snaffles in Dublin the same Charles was an extremely regular patron .
Always before he left he would stick his head into the kitchen and say “How’s Martin ? Still cooking well” or something in a similar style.
The fact that I really knew in my heart that he had just acquired my name from the maitre’d didn’t stop me feeling a million dollars.
Yes, he had charm to burn, but it was well studied.