Doug Hayward's father cleaned heating boilers for the BBC and worked a second job cleaning buses in Uxbridge; while his mother worked during World War II in a munitions factory.
13 Facts About Doug Hayward
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Doug Hayward had a trial at inside-left for the Middlesex county football team, but lost out to Johnny Haynes, who was a left footer.
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Doug Hayward left school at 15, looking for a white-collar job:.
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Doug Hayward was apprenticed to a Shepherd's Bush Green tailor who visited the flats in Cadogan Square, where his uncle was a caretaker.
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Unable to gain a cutters job on either Savile Row or even Oxford Street due to his Cockney accent, Doug Hayward then joined fellow showbiz specialist tailor Dimitrio Major, based in Fulham.
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Doug Hayward first set up on his own operating out of a small room in London's Pall Mall, before moving to 95 Mount Street in Mayfair in 1966 where he lived above the shop which soon became a club for his famous clients.
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Doug Hayward had this great ability to treat everybody the same.
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Doug Hayward gave her regular sums of money, always in cash.
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Doug Hayward provided the real-life inspiration for his friend Michael Caine's most iconic screen role, serial philanderer Alfie Elkins.
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Doug Hayward was the model for client John le Carre's Harry Pendel, aka The Tailor of Panama.
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Doug Hayward's second was journalist Glenys Roberts, with whom he had a daughter Polly, who later became his business partner.
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Doug Hayward was so charming many women claimed to be his lovers.
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Doug Hayward suffered a fall in 1996, and there followed a long period of ill health before his death brought on by vascular dementia.