‘UK’s black spider memos to be released’
The secret letters of the British Crown Prince to the UK government in 2004-5, which created controversy over the royal family's “meddling in politics,” are finally set for publication, says report.
The 27 letters were sent between Prince Charles and ministers in seven government departments in 2004 and 2005 and were the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Guardian journalist Rob Evans.
Now after a 10-year battle by the Guardian to expose the heir apparent to the throne’s so-called ‘black spider memos’ to public scrutiny, the letters are finally due for publication on Wednesday.
The British daily says the government has been battling to protect the Prince of Wales from scrutiny over what the former attorney general Dominic Grieve has described as Charles’s “particularly frank” interventions on public policy in the letters.
The letters will be published with some redactions following the upper tribunal’s ruling on Tuesday afternoon that it had “accepted Mr Evans’s submission that what is described in the decision as ‘the open material’ is to be supplied to other parties without restriction on their ability to publish that material.”
Back in March, the Supreme Court upheld a ruling to allow the so-called black-spider memos to be published.
Named after Prince Charles’ distinctive handwriting, the memos are letters whose publication was blocked by the government as they contain Prince Charles’ “most deeply held personal views and beliefs” that may undermine his position of political neutrality.
Campaigners say the letters will prove that the royal “meddles in politics.”
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