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Summary No, you cannot read Prince Charles' letters to British government officials.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve on Tuesday overruled a court ruling last month that the public had a right to see what sort of advice the opinionated prince was offering to the government.Grieve says many of the letters are particularly frank and could compromise the publics perception of Charles as a politically neutral figure.Britains constitutional monarch has no political power, but meets regularly with prime ministers and other senior politicians to talk about events of the day.Grieve decided that the princes letter-writing was part of his decades-long preparation to succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, to the throne.
