On stage or screen, Sir Rex Harrison was, observed one critic, ‘light, crisp, detached, cruel – and mesmerising’, never more so than in his Oscar-winning performance as Henry Higgins, opposite Audrey Hepburn, in the 1964 classic, My Fair Lady.
But the actor’s poise was less obvious in a private life during which he notched up six wives, various lovers, two legitimate sons – and, I can now disclose, another son whose existence has, until now, gone unrecorded.
Indeed, that is how things would have remained, had it not been for an extraordinary chance meeting in Mexico.
It was there that an old school
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