Prince Charles May Go On Air to Address Doubts About His Sexual Preferences: Indian Report

Rediff.com (India) in English ^ | 8 November 2003 | Shyam Bhatia in London (Rediff)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Title: "Prince Charles May Go On Air to Address Doubts About His Sexual Preferences"

Shyam Bhatia in London | November 09, 2003 21:00 IST (Rediff, India)

Prince Charles is pondering a televised broadcast to the nation after failed attempts to stamp out rumours about an alleged sexual incident involving the heir to the British throne.

While no firm decision has as yet been made, the royal family's hand is being forced by an avalanche of media reports in Europe and on foreign language websites.

As Charles returned to the United Kingdom on Sunday from his two-week trip to India and Oman, the mass circulation News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch, took the lead by running a front-page story with the headline -- "Is Charles Bisexual?"

The headline was prompted by comments by a former royal family adviser, Mark Bolland, in his personal newspaper column that he remembers being telephoned on a holiday by Charles' private secretary, Sir Michael Peat, who asked him, "Do you think Charles is bisexual?"

Sir Michael has denied asking the question, but it has done nothing to squash allegations based on a tape recording found in a mahogany box owned by the prince's late wife, Diana.

In the tape, George Smith, a former royal servant who suffered from alcoholism and post-traumatic stress syndrome after fighting in the Falklands War, claimed he had been raped by another male royal aide.

However, his more controversial claim is that he witnessed a homosexual encounter between a senior royal aide and a member of the royal family. It is this claim that Charles and his supporters, including other members of the royal family, continue to strenuously deny. His elder son, William, wants Charles to sue any newspaper that dares to print the allegations.

Among other supporters is author Andrew Roberts, who wrote in today's Sunday Telegraph, "Mr Smith ought to have been left to deal with his alcoholism, his psychological problems, his post-traumatic stress, his marital breakdown and his chronic depression with the help of his doctors, not used as a tool to propagate foul sexual myths about the prince."

The plea for restraint was echoed by Charles' former private secretary Sir Stephen Lamport. He has accused the media of pursuing an agenda that undervalues the Prince as a 'force for good' who has touched the lives of so many.

The issue first surfaced last year during the trial of Diana's former butler Paul Burrell. Earlier, the police were forced to police were forced to drop charges that he had stolen articles from Diana's estate and from other members of the royal family after her death in 1997.

One of the items he was accused of stealing was the audio tape containing Smith's confession, which Diana had recorded several years earlier and kept in her special mahogany box.

When Burrell started publicising his book "A Royal Duty" he mentioned the famous cassette and explained that revealing its contents would be a disaster for the country.

The media latched on to that and raked up the issue leading to the current crisis in the royal family.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Hmm.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I want to know the real story about Prince Harry. This boy looks nothing like Charles, and exactly like James Hewitt.

[billorites]

When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curl,
I float as the clouds on air do,
I enjoy being a girl!

[billorites]

When men say I'm sweet as candy
As around in a dance we whirl,
It goes to my head like brandy,
I enjoy being a girl!

[WackyKat]

He might come off better by admitting he's gay than by admitting he had sex with Camilla Parker-Bowles.

[SandRat]

I've always wondered why they called Charles before he married Dianah "Bonnie-Prince Chales" and now perhaps we know.

Have you looked at the photos of Camilla? She looks like Ernest Borgnine in drag.

[dfwgator]

God Save the "Queen".

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good luck getting a DNA test out of Buckingham.

"We'd have better luck playing 'pick up sticks' with our butt checks than that." --"Del Griffith" (John Candy) in "Planes, Trains & Automobiles"

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Wasn't one of Lady Di's complaints about Charles something to the effect that he didn't spend a lot of time in the bedroom with her? Could be he was already, er, tapped out.

[Lijahsbubbe]

He might come off better by admitting he's gay than by admitting he had sex with Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Bwahahaha.

[Lijahsbubbe]

She looks like Ernest Borgnine in drag.

Another poster pinned it down the other day when they said she looked exactly like Crocodile Dundee.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"We'd have better luck playing 'pick up sticks' with our butt cheeks than that

John Candy playing pick-up sticks with his butt, that's quite a visual!

[RichInOC]

Aggggggggghhh...so, how 'bout those Bears?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, I do believe that was part of her (Di's) various feminine sighings and moanings captured in male/female conversation on tape a number of years back, and played for the world to hear.

[ladyinred]

This just gets better and better, or worse and worse depending on your point of view.

[ladyinred]

I love that song! Hope Charles doesn't! :-)

[ladyinred]

I want to know the real story about Prince Harry. This boy looks nothing like Charles, and exactly like James Hewitt.

I have always thought the same thing, yet the claim by everyone is that she didn't meet James until AFTER Harry was born, in fact he several years old. Old enough to be given riding lessons by James which is how the affair started. Diana did have red heads in her immediate family you know.

[wilmington2]

The media corruption for money shows decadence.

[gracie1]

A few years ago, after Dianna died, I was watching some tv show interviewing a friend of Camilla. The question was put "why did the prince choose to continue his affair with Camilla when he had such a lovely wife. The friend answered "well, Camilla is pretty hot in the bedroom." the interviewer just about was left speechless! I can't remember what show it was, I think the Today show or something on MSNBC.

[Lijahsbubbe]

You and I have discussed this before! Every time I see a picture of Harry, and recently Hewitt was on Larry King (who looks like he has terribly bad breath, Larry, that is) and the more I see the both of them, the more I think the resemblance is too much to ignore. Everything from the chinline to the nose to the ears is the same, and different on Charles!