To Richard Harris, the Magical Home On Paradise Island Was His Camelot and His Sons Were His Knights

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Richard Harris was riding high on his success as King Arthur in Camelot in the summer of 1968. The actor's three small sons Damian, eight, Jared, five-and-a-half, and Jamie, three by his first wife, Elizabeth came out to Paradise Island, in the Bahamas, for a holiday with their newly famous father, who was staying with Kevin McClory, producer of the Bond film Thunderball.

'We had just arrived, hadn't even unpacked, when my father excitedly said he wanted to show us something,' says Damian.

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To Richard Harris, the Magical Home On Paradise Island Was His Camelot and His Sons Were His Knights

'He took us for a walk along Paradise Beach. A strange guy drinking rum punches out of a coconut shell was hanging around outside this amazing house.

Although we didn't know it at the time, he was the eccentric American billionaire Huntingdon Hartford, who virtually owned Paradise Island.

'The amazing house belonged to him. Dad asked us if we liked it. We gave him the nod and he told us that it was ours.' Richard had bought the house wi...

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