EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Royal stylist went to rehab after divorce and surviving knife attack
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To the public, he's a stylist to the stars who has made organic hair products for King Charles and is an ambassador for the King's Trust. Yet Daniel Galvin Jr has revealed that his life was, in reality, so unbearable that he has spent five months in a rehabilitation centre.
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'After five years of life-changing circumstances: attacked, enduring 14 hours of head surgery, the struggles of Covid, losing one of my organic product businesses I built over 25 years, surviving a knife and machete attack again outside my shop in Belgravia, encompassing a weathering painful divorce, letting go of 75 per cent of my material possessions – I came close to giving up for the first time in my life,' he discloses online.
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'But thanks to my boxing trainer, who gave me a head towel I looked at one morning, embroidered "never throw in the towel", changed my mindset. 'I went to a spiritual medical facility in South Africa for five months, Cedars, with the full support and help of my beautiful family and girlfriend, which, to be frank, saved my life.'.
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The 54-year-old, whose clients include Johnny Depp, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, is the son of Daniel Galvin, Princess Diana's colourist. He enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was educated at £57,000-a-year Millfield school in Somerset. He divorced Suzanna Galvin, a model turned interior designer, in 2021 after 20 years of marriage.
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