One was an artist on the fringes of respectable London society, racking up gambling debts with the Kray twins. The other was an Etonian schoolboy of rich aristocratic lineage and heir to one of Englands finest homes.
Together they hid from debt collectors in a scruffy Paddington flat.
The 12th Duke of Devonshire yesterday disclosed his schoolboy escapades with Lucian Freud, the once-penniless portrait painter who became one of the countrys most-admired artists.
The duke, 72, who is custodian of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and its priceless artistic treasures,…
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