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 It took me a while to track down the sordid details of the latest
Prince Charles scandal. But how can you not? Is it not a universal
truth that when someone announces "I have a secret but I’m not telling
what it is" that they WANT you to try to find out? I mean, I took Psychology
101 once upon a time. Rather naiive, as well, of the British courts to think they could keep the details unknown in the Age of the Internet. Anyway, in the name of Glasnost and the New Jornalism, here’s the dirt…
Several newspapers the world over yesterday published allegations that
the British press is barred from reporting: that Prince Charles was once
involved in a homosexual encounter with an aide.
The purported sexual contact, according to the reports, took place between
the Prince and one of his closest advisers, Mr Michael Fawcett.
The allegations arose from a tape that was found in a mahogany box owned
by the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
On that tape, Mr George Smith, a former royal servant who had suffered
from alcoholism and post-traumatic stress syndrome after fighting in
the Falklands War, said he had been raped by another male royal aide.
He also claimed to have witnessed a compromising sexual encounter involving
a member of the royal family.
In Italy, Corriere della Sera became the first newspaper in Europe to
publish the story. Its report yesterday said that ‘the most lurid accusation
against the British royal household came dramatically into the open yesterday’.
It gave details of the allegations.
A semi-pornographic Italian
website has also set out the central allegations. Other websites carried
versions
of the claims in Flemish and Portuguese.
Any Italeophones capable of posting a translation?
from the Straightstimes
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