Posted on 11/09/2003 4:16:32 PM PST by george wythe
"Sure, he's an adulterer who used his marriage vows for toilet paper but that's just wrong!"
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Dan
Cheap translation
Charles: "Stop it, I am not gay"London - Whatever it is, Prince C. says he didn't do it. It will go down in the history of Buckingham Palace as the most bizarre denial of all time. "I want to make this very clear", said the heir to the throne through his secretary "that the recent gossip which has been circulating lately is about me, but it is completely false".
What this gossip is about, C. doesn't feel like saying. Until now, the British media have been unable to talk about it freely because of the UK's strict law against defamation. But it has circulated all the same on internet and in the allusions of the British media to the reports of foreign newspapers, as well as in the recent warnings that, were this story to come to light, it might "bring down the monarchy".
Well, it is now coming to light, if in a rather oblique way. They know the (alleged) sinner, but not the sin, but it is enough to understand the whole (or almost). Here is a summary, in three acts.
First Act: in 1995 George Smith, Princess Diana's valet, reveals to her how he was twice raped by a former court employee, and claims to have seen the "sodomist" in bed with a member of the royal house.
Diana records the eyewitness account on a videotape, which is later kept by her butler, Paul Burrell, then it either disappears or is taken away by the police. This is what, according to some indiscretions, happened: Smith opens the door to a private room and insides he sees one of the Windsors in the arms of his [Smith's] rapist, under the bedsheets.
But who is prince? (The elder Prince Philip? Charles? One of his younger brothers, Andrew or Edward?) and which servant is sharing his bed with him? No one is telling.
Second Act: The other day an authoritative British daily, the Guardian, prepares to reveail the name of the royal palace servant at the centre of a new embarrassing revelation by George Smith. A British court, at the request of the anonymous servant (who has employed the most expensive lawyers in the Kingdom) forbids the publication.
The Guardian appeals, wins, and the name is out. It is Michael Fawcett, for many years Charles' butler [sic]. According to Diana, there was a (perhaps too) intimate relationship between the two. In yet another videotape she apparently stated that Fawcett even put the toothpaste on Charles' toothbrush, that the two had an "unhealthy" and "excessively intimate" relationship. So the princess suspected that her husband and his servant had a homosexual relationship.
Third Act: From India, where he is on an official visit, after a month of wild tabloid revelations on Diana, Charles loses his patience, revealing himself to be at the centre of all the gossip. "Let's admit it, it's me they are talking about", he is trying to say, "but it's all nonsense", even though Poirot or Sherlock Holmes would find enough clues to the contrary. Anyway, the main characters of the presumed "triangle" are now known, and the tabloid happily reveal "My valets and I, all nonsense, Charles say", which looks more like a confirmation than a denial, and in any case is referring to accusations hitherto unknown to the public.
It may well be that the whole story is false, and that the warnings according to which it might "bring down the monarchy" is one of those typical exaggerations the tabloids are fond of. However, it must be remembered that yesterday even respectable newspapers dealt with it, and on their first pages. It may well not be enough that the monarchy is about to be brought down. But, with the heir to the throne forced to deny an accusation of sleeping with his favourite servant, it does not seem to be in the best of health.
Really. Men of utter integrity and honesty don't cheat on their wives!
Look at the English version of the "incident" story by CNN. Also here.
Compare to the Italian version of the "incident" story also in CNN.
[Cheap translation]
The Guardian has gained the legal battle to publish the name of the man who, according to a royal servant, had sexual relations with Prince Charles.His name is Michael Fawcett, former private secretary to the Prince of Wales. Fawcett has also been accused in the past of raping another servant, George Smith.
original italian text
Il "Guardian" - dopo aver vinto una battaglia legale - è riuscito addirittura a pubblicare il nome dell'uomo che, secondo quanto rivelato da un valletto, avrebbe avuto rapporti sessuali con il principe Carlo.Si tratta di Michael Fawcett, ex segretario particolare del principe di Galles, che in passato è stato anche accusato dal servitore di corte George Smith di averlo violentato.
Add this to your post! The sustainable prince may not be sustainable! man of the utmost honesty and integrity - hilarious!
Charles is not a stooper but a stabber.
Speaking of gall! Who is she to say Diana did anything deceitful as far as Charles is concerned? How do Diana's boy like the idea that their would be stepmother is making such remarks against their dead mother?
This group seems to love to discredit anyone who has anything on the royal family by calling them drunks, or mental cases or both! Speaking of mental cases Camilla! Pot/kettle/black!
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