The sex scandal surrounding Prince Charles continued to build Monday, as reports said he had decided not to go on TV to deny the rumors, and a former servant came to his defense.
Though a court order kept English media from reporting just what the scandal’s about, no such order applied to newspapers elsewhere. Newspapers from Scotland and Italy to Australia reported the central allegations: that George Smith, a former valet to Prince Charles, says he saw the prince having sex with another male aide, Michael Fawcett; and that Fawcett had raped Smith.
More than a week after the rumors became the subject of a legal case, few in England know details of Smith’s allegations unless they have turned to the Web. A court order forbids newspapers there to print the details.
The order does not apply to Scotland, though, and on Sunday the Sunday Herald of Glasgow printed the allegations, according to the Irish Independent. The Scottish newspaper reported that the injunction did prevent it from putting its story online.
No such order applied to Australia. The Web site of the Sun-Herald of Sydney, Australia, reported Sunday, “The rumors surround a purported sexual contact between Prince Charles and Michael Fawcett, one of his closest advisers.” It reported that Smith said he was raped by a male royal aide and that he witnessed a homosexual encounter between a royal aide and a member of the royal family.
The newspaper reported that that was the claim Prince Charles was denying Thursday, when he said he was not involved in an undescribed “incident some years ago involving a senior member of the Royal Family.”
The prince’s statement, which did not name Smith, described the man making the allegations as suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and alcoholism after service in the Falklands War.
“He has, in the past, made other unrelated allegations, which the police have fully investigated and found to be unsubstantiated,” the statement said. Smith, 43, worked for Prince Charles for 11 years until 1997.
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