A Life Less Ordinary ; Nick Peto's Autobiography Details His High-Society Life in Which He Befriended Everyone From Lord Lucan to Camilla Parker Bowles. In an Exclusive Interview, He Tells Andrew Wilson About Being Saved From Suicide by Andrew Parker Bowles, the Gambling Habit That Nearly Ruined Him and Owning a Unique Oil Painting by the New Duchess of Cornwall

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Interview Nick Peto is the last of a dying breed of English gentlemen, a man whose lofty connections, rather than a grand inheritance, have fuelled an extraordinary life.

But with the society highs have come sombre lows, and the 65- year-old will never forget the day when heading for the Thames, seriously considering suicide, his life was saved by his friend, Andrew Parker Bowles, the former husband of the Duchess of Cornwall.

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A Life Less Ordinary ; Nick Peto's Autobiography Details His High-Society Life in Which He Befriended Everyone From Lord Lucan to Camilla Parker Bowles. In an Exclusive Interview, He Tells Andrew Wilson About Being Saved From Suicide by Andrew Parker Bowles, the Gambling Habit That Nearly Ruined Him and Owning a Unique Oil Painting by the New Duchess of Cornwall

This is just one of the many stories that fill the pages of Peto's Progress.

The book is an autobiography and a delightful if heavily namedropping romp packed with warm, witty and, more often than not, self-deprecating anecdotes.

The suicide bid was the result of a devastating gambling habit that nearly destroyed Peto. He had started to gamble while studying to be an officer at Sandhurst, and by the time his seven-year stint in the Army had come to a close, had become addicted to cards. During one lucky streak in the mid-Sixties, when he went to the famous Clermont Club i...

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