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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: 'Wonga coup' mercenary Simon Mann, father of Prince Harry's close friend Jack, walks out on his third wife - and is 'being comforted by woman more than 20 years his junior'
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Old Etonian former Scots Guards officer Simon Mann, 71, father of Prince Harry's close friend, Jack, has left his third wife, Amanda, mother of four of his seven children.
His life is beyond easy emulation, encompassing, as it does, service in the SAS, exploits in Sierra Leone and Angola which made him a multi-millionaire, and, later, heading the so-called 'Wonga Coup' – a failed attempt to depose Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea – after which he survived malaria during five years in African prisons, 18 months of which were spent, in leg-irons, in solitary confinement in a cell '6ft wide and seven paces long'. Quite the reverse: I can reveal that the Old Etonian former Scots Guards officer has left his third wife, the vivacious Amanda, mother of four of his seven children, and is now apparently being comforted by a woman more than 20 years his junior. Old Etonian former Scots Guards officer Simon Mann has left his third wife, the vivacious Amanda, mother of four of his seven children, and is now apparently being comforted by a woman more than 20 years his junior.
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