| Bolland: Prince Sees Himself As A Political "Dissident" |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | ||||||||||
| Tuesday, 21 February 2006 | ||||||||||
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Page 3 of 3 The former spin doctor also claims the Prince, whose friends so often condemned Diana for her "manipulation" of the media, requested that it be leaked to the media that he was making a statement through his absence at an official banquet for a visiting President of China. Bolland says of the prince's decision not to attend a State Banquet hosted during President Jiang Zemin's visit to Britain in October 1999: "He did this as a deliberate snub to the Chinese because he did not approve of the Chinese regime. We tried to persuade him to attend, but to no avail." 
However, in what looks like an increasingly sensational legal battle, the Prince's team are doing their utmost to defend Charles's decision to release his private journals to a group of between 30 and 50 people. The Prince is also fighting to regain ownership of seven more diaries, copied by a "disloyal former employee". Referring to the Mail on Sunday's publication of the so-called 'Hong Kong Journals', in which the Prince dubbed the Chinese leadership "appalling old waxworks", Prince Charles's QC, Hugh Tomlinson, told the High Court: "We say it is absolutely vital to the position of the claimant — and anyone else in his position — that this sort of document cannot be published willy nilly by the Press, and that is the reason we brought this action." 
Responding to the allegation that the Prince of Wales sees himself as a political "dissident", it's being reported that his Private Secretary, Sir Michael Peat, has said that on no account does the Prince go about campaigning, especially on the subject of party political views. Comment on this article
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