Royal Family News: Prince Charles Once Accused Of Political ‘Intervention’ Like Son, Prince Harry

British royal family news spills the beans that the United Kingdom monarchy is intended to be as neutral as Switzerland when it comes to politics. That doesn’t mean they have a pristine record of keeping their opinions to themselves, however, as Hollywood’s Prince Harry has shown in spades these last few months.

But back in Britain Prince Charles is older and arguably wiser than his rebellious offspring so he really should know better. But it seems that Charles who is the direct heir to the throne had a colossal lapse in judgment in this regard.

What Did Prince Charles Do?

It concerned memos the snoopy prince sent out in 2004 and 2005 to then Prime Minister Tony Blair. Poor Charles only wanted to pontificate about matters dear and dear to him but he knew this was forbidden.

Hey, didn’t he also do something else famously forbidden knowing it was a no-no yet he did it anyway? Oh well, all’s well that ends well, at least in the case of his marriage to Camilla.

Charles Once Did Something Outrageously Out Of Line

The memos became known as the black spider memos due to the prince’s individualistic “spidery” handwriting. These were kept out of the public domain for ten years but a successful legal challenge changed all that.

In 2015 they were finally published and after all the hullabaloo the controversial letters were met with a giant and collective meh.

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Except for that historian, Jenny Hocking was not of that mind and she told Express.co.uk that she viewed the memos as, “shocking” and “outrageous.”

According to her, “The black spider letters made direct policy advocacy into an art form in the letters to Tony Blair and his ministers.”

She added, “How they can be seen as anything other than an outrageous intervention in the political domain that we know constitutional monarchs cannot do, cannot ever do.”

The adamant lady went on, “I mean, those letters are quite shocking and you would know that Buckingham Palace fought and appealed at every point against The Guardian’s 10-year struggle to get those letters.”

“And for good reason; because they show Charles intervening in the political process quite overtly.” So are we to assume that that is who Prince Harry inherited his predilection for election “interference” from?

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