All My Life People Have Been Telling Me What to Do. I'm Tired of It... ; in a Devastating Secret Interview, Prince Charles Tells Gavin Hewitt Why He Feels He has Been Let Down by the Government, by His Courtiers, by the Bbc and Even by His Own Future Subjects...

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My hair was wet. Sweat trickled down my face as I got into the mini-van.

There was not a dry patch on my white shirt. There were even damp stains on my jacket and trousers. As I was driven to the British Ambassador's residence in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Royal aides in the mini-van looked back at me. They could scarcely believe that I was the man going to interview the Prince of Wales.

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All My Life People Have Been Telling Me What to Do. I'm Tired of It... ; in a Devastating Secret Interview, Prince Charles Tells Gavin Hewitt Why He Feels He has Been Let Down by the Government, by His Courtiers, by the Bbc and Even by His Own Future Subjects...

It was a bizarre start to a strange encounter. I had had to run full pelt through the streets of Sofia to make a clandestine meeting that was to give me a unique insight into the anger Charles feels about the way Britain has treated him.

The meeting had taken months to arrange. I had wanted to interview the Prince for Panorama on the

occasion of his 50th birthday in November 1998.

Charles and his advisers had blown hot and cold. Four years earlier, his aides had persuaded him to drop his reserve, to pour out the agony of his personal life to Jonathan Dimbleby.

But it had all backfired after the Prince had admitted on camera to being unfaithful to Diana. ...

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