Diary leaves Prince Charles red faced

**40sondacurb** · 02-22-2006, 11:37 PM

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Britain's Prince Charles is facing more unwelcome publicity due to the release of a diary with very revealing and embarrassing contents.

The extracts in the Mail on Sunday revealed Charles had described Chinese officials as "appalling old waxworks" and called an official ceremony "an awful Soviet style display".

"All the locals were being outwardly thoroughly optimistic about the immediate future but in the background was the sneaking worry about creeping corruption and the gradual undermining of Hong Kong's greatest strength - the rule of law," he wrote.

"Apparently in China itself the army is heavily involved in pretty corrupt business practice, so one can only hope they are confined to barracks in Hong Kong."

But he also states "the Philippines were incredibly friendly and warm-hearted and pleased to see the British."

Charles' representatives have said the journal was passed to the newspaper without permission.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/...670195451.html

don't see what the big fuss is about, I would be surprised if the harbor of an overcrowded city was clean. And most communist countries are corrupt, it's the only thing to get thing done without 30 other people putting their hands in the cookie jar.

bry623 · 02-23-2006, 05:39 AM

That seems pretty mild to me.

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