Camilla 's distant cousin has taken his own life in a hotel room after being declared bankrupt, according to reports.
Charles Villiers and his estranged wife Emma Villiers were embroiled in a long-running and bitter divorce as they disputed over whether it should be settled in the Scottish or English courts.
They had separated in 2014 before filing for divorce two years later, making the proceedings one of the longest on record.
The 59-year-old is reported to have been found dead by a housekeeper at the Durrants Hotel in London's Marylebone last week.
Charles is understood to have been sleeping on friends' sofas before moving onto a pal's yacht in Greece in recent weeks.
However, the friend is said to have arranged for him to return to the UK and visit a clinic as his mental health deteriorated.
But he instead checked into the hotel last Wednesday and was found dead the following day, reports the Times.
Charles had argued the divorce should be dealt with by a Scottish court but the Supreme Court justices ruled in his wife's favour.
In March last year Mr Justice Mostyn of the High Court's family division ruled Charles was in such bad financial difficulties he should be able to forego paying maintenance.
He said the former couple had been "financially ruined" by very poor litigation which had likely impacted them both psychologically.
But Emma won an appeal to overturn his ruling.
The former couple's manor home Milton House, near Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, was repossessed in 2015, the court heard.
Charles had been engaged to opera singer Heidi Innes before they split in February.
The pair had been forced out of a rented cottage in Tyninghame, East Lothian, in November, after they ran up thousands in arrears during the Covid pandemic.
They had then briefly moved to Budapest, in Hungary, before splitting up.
A spokesman for the Met Police told the Mirror: "Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at 13:11hrs on Thursday, 18 August to reports of an unresponsive man at a hotel on George Street, W1.
"Officers attended. At the scene a man, aged in his 50s, was found deceased."
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