PETER FROST thinks the Queen, Charles and the rest of the royal family need to get their priorities in order
Wax versions of the Windsors
LIZABETH WINDSOR and the rest of the royals seem to have got their regal knickers in a twist about Harry and Meghan wanting to have a simpler life.
They have never really been able to deal with a woman who as well as not being white actually earned her own living.
If they are keen to have a summit with Charlie-boy giving them all advice and orders, I can think of at least one subject more important than poor old Meghan and her husband.
Anyone who watched Prince Andrew’s now disastrous TV interview could hardly believe how stupid the Duke of York was in trying to defend his relationship with well-known paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
King-in-waiting Charles, we are told, has spoken severely to his younger brother, telling Andrew how stupid he had been having a public relationship with a long-term paedophile.
Can this be the same older brother Charles who spent so much time being entertained by Britain’s best-known home-grown paedophile, Jimmy Savile?
Charles and Savile were great friends. Savile was a frequent visitor to Charles’s homes at Highgrove and St James’s Palace.
Charles consulted his close friend Savile on other matters. He would ask him to read over speeches he was due to give on all sorts of topics. Savile once described himself as a court jester. He even gave Charles and Diana marriage-guidance counselling.
On one occasion at Highgrove local health officials were gobsmacked to arrive for a meeting with Charles about the proposed closure of a local hospital to find Savile at the table. After the prince left, Savile told them that making him and Charles unhappy could cost them a knighthood.
The prince always sent a Christmas card to Savile. On one he wrote: “Jimmy, with affectionate greetings from Charles. Give my love to your ladies in Scotland.”
The ladies were young women dressed in salacious waitress outfits who served the two men when they dined at Savile’s Highland house in Glencoe.
Perhaps most amazingly, Charles even included paedophile Savile in a list of potential godparents after his second son Harry was born in 1984.
Savile wasn’t the only active paedophile that Charles counted among his closest friends. Peter Ball, the disgraced bishop of Gloucester, became very close to Charles.
Charles was a long-time admirer of Bishop Ball. When the prince’s marriage to Diana was unravelling, Ball was asked for advice. Later, the bishop encouraged his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles.
Ball was a guest of honour at the wedding when Charles finally married Camilla.
The support Charles gave to bishop Ball defending himself against allegations of sexual abuse is now putting the judgement of our future king in serious question.
Charles actually sent letters of support to him while he was under investigation for paedophilia.
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey and other senior Church of England figures also colluded with Ball to prevent him facing criminal charges. They offered no solace to his young victims.
As well as gaining influence within the church, Bishop Ball had a powerful Establishment network, including regularly dining with Margaret Thatcher at posh London hotel the Savoy, often dressed in his monk’s habit.
