Will baby girl slow down Fast Eddie?

‘FAST’ Eddie Davenport has ricocheted through life, launching the louche ‘Gatecrasher’ balls aged just 20, establishing nightclubs and acquiring the fabulous London townhouse used in Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech.

He also bought a manorial title and was manacled to a hospital bed in HMP Wandsworth during one of two prison sentences.

Now 55 and living in Thailand, he claims to have embarked on yet another new role — that of father. The fraudster, who likes to style himself ‘Lord Edward’, proudly proclaimed the arrival of baby Ophelia Davenport on social media.

‘It’s an amazing story,’ he tells me, without disclosing Ophelia’s mother’s name — or nationality. ‘They’ve got good English schools here in Thailand,’ adds Davenport, who attended Frensham Heights, where a headteacher once told a prospective pupil he would be ‘horrified’ if children were not ‘having sex in the bushes’. Which may explain much of Davenport’s career . . .

Louche: Davenport promoting one of his parties with latex-clad models