NYT NEWSROOM TURMOIL OVER PRINCE CHARLES GAY RUMOR

Drudge Report ^ | 11/07/03 | Matt Drudge

[nickcarraway]

Top editors at the NEW YORK TIMES panicked and ordered a story killed after London-based reporter Sarah Lyall filed a dispatch alleging rumors of Prince Charles and a sexual affair with one of his closest advisers!

The story appeared on the TIMES's internet website for 20 minutes -- before top editors ordered it immediately removed, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

[cowtowney]

The Puffter Prince

[Revolting cat!]

Charles gay? No way!

[spectre]

"Have the Brits ever heard of orthodontists and dentists?"

Or Bonding?

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[Billthedrill]

Well, there was Edward II, subject of Marlowe's tragedy. He was executed according to his sins.

Was this the hot-poker story or the cow's-horn-and-molten-iron story? I guess they didn't do autopsies in those days...

[Fifth Business]

Defender of the Faith ping

[mseltzer]

That's a cousin.

[TX Bluebonnet]

I thought that story about Charles servant squeezing Charles' toothpaste was a little suggestive.

[Revolting cat!]

Anybody who's first name is Prince (or Bruce) is suspect, if you axe me!

[BJungNan]

Hey, give the New York Times a break. Their tired of being scooped by the National Enquirer.

[jimbo123]

So the story is Prince Charles' gay lover raped another man and the Royal Family is covering it up? Sound like Democrat Family Values.

[b-cubed]

Is that closest adviser or closet adviser?

[Bonaparte]

Yes, I remember now. He's the guy who received the coveted Order of the Baths, following his initiation into the Brotherhood of Judy.

[CatoRenasci]

If it's German Hochadel you want, take the Hohenzollern's, the Hohenstaufen's or the Wittelsbachs. Well, maybe the Wittlesbachs tend to madness like the Habsburgs, but still....

I always joke a bit about the fact that the British monarchy are a bunch of Germans (remember Phillip, sometimes considered a Greek, is a Mountbatten, another German family -- von Battenburg -- than changed its name during WWI. -- Prince Louis of Battenburg was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914, until he was replaced because it didn't seem right to have a German in the job!), but that's what they are. Not much English or even Scots blood. The last English monarch I could unreservedly support was Queen Anne, except her agreeing to the Hanoverian succession.

[BJungNan]

Anybody who's first name is Prince (or Bruce) is suspect, if you axe me!

Tanisha, You misspelled aks.

[spectre]

Hummm? I honestly don't care if Prince Charles is "gay"..none of my business...OTOH, just who the heck does young Prince Harry favor anyway?

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[mseltzer]

Right, that's the guy. His summer palace is at Scrotum-on-Jelly, just north of Manchester.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Maybe she has a really nice personality.

Who is Charles Gay anyway? Is he a prince?

[nickcarraway]

Have you ever seen Black Adder?

[CatoRenasci]

No

[Little Bill]

Hannover Rats?