Tapes story printed
NZPA London The West German magazine “Die Aktuelle” has printed extracts of alleged phone-tapped conversations between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. The magazine, which has a weekly circulation of about 600,000, has printed 950,000 copies of its latest issue, which is supposed to appear on German streets today. Court injunctions have been granted to Prince Charles in Britain and Germany barring publication of the alleged conversations. The magazine’s publish’’
yrs say that it will not be on sale in Britain.
Mr Patrick Engel, the magazine’s production manager, said, “We’ve printed most of the transcript of the conversations, the sort of thing that we thought would be fair to Prince Ch . les. We’ve left out all the political stuff and the chat with the Queen in the article, which runs to six pages with pictures. “What we’ve got is a human-interest story and it makes Prince Charles look very nice and everybody will love it. “We have nothing against him. He’s a lovely human being and people
should know this. He may appear rude, but he isn’t. Prince Charles talks to his girl just like any other fellow, which everybody should know about-”
Mr Engel said that the magazine had been printed and dispatched to distributors bv the time the injunction had been granted in the Nuremberg District Court on Thursday. “Going round to collect up all the copies would have taken me six months.” Solicitors for Prince Charles have said that tape transcripts which they have seen were of “conversations which never took place.”
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