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Revealed this week to have been the lover of Labour prime minister Harold Wilson, Janet Hewlett-Davies took another secret to the grave.
I can disclose that the Downing Street aide was the owner of a tiara which she considered to be of such historical importance that it belonged in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Hewlett-Davies, who died last October last year aged 85, specified in her last will and testament that the jewelled coronet, of the kind worn by female guests at Buckingham Palace banquets, be offered to the V&A in South Kensington, London.
It's not yet known who gave her the tiara or if she wore it to a royal event.
A deputy Press Secretary at No.10, Hewlett-Davies grew up in Shirley, Solihull, and attended a grammar school in the West Midlands.
Revealed this week to have been the lover of Labour prime minister Harold Wilson (pictured), Janet Hewlett-Davies took another secret to the grave
Probate documents show that in her will, written in 2021, she stated: 'I wish for my tiara to be offered to the Victoria and Albert Museum and would wish Geoffrey Munn, of Wartski Jewellers in
