UK News 28-09-2001 You F***ing Idiot! Charles Tells Edward who: Prince Charles what: Apoplectic with rage over media intrusion on Prince William where: ST ANDREWS when: Yesterday snippet: Prince Charles was "apoplectic" with rage and called his younger brother Edward a "f****** idiot" during a three minute phone call littered with swearwords yesterday, reports The Mirror. The Prince of Wales was said to be "red in the face" and "incandescent" with rage after Ardent Productions, the Earl of Wessex`s television company, broke the unofficial media agreement designed to protect Prince William`s privacy at St Andrews University. Spokesmen for the university and St James`s Palace expressed "disbelief and fury", says The Times, "that the only media outfit to break the voluntary code not to pursue Prince William was one run by his uncle." "The loss-making Ardent Productions claimed that it had secured permission to remain after Sunday`s photo call," continues Andrew Pierce. "The university issued a point by point denial of the claim." "Ardent Productions admitted that its two-man crew had been filming in the Fife town," says The Telegraph, but in a statement they insisted that they "were not filming William and had no intention of doing so". [... more]

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