Richard E Grant tells of King Charles' dash to see dying wife, with unusual gift

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Playing a dirty, rotten, drunken nobleman in his new film Savage House, Richard E Grant is a natural. He has played rampant boozers brilliantly for years in all their guises - from an unhinged out of work wino actor in Withnail and I in 1987, to a drunken gay grifter in 2018 in the Oscar nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me? Yet Richard is actually allergic to alcohol. One of life’s brilliant observers, he is utterly convincing in Savage House, swigging red wine by the vat, playing nincompoop Sir