Charles for Hong Kong?
NZPA-AAP London The British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, wants Prince Charles to become Governor of Hong Kong in time to hand the British Crown colony over to the Chinese in 1997, according to a neW biography of the Prince to be published next month.
The book, “Charles, a Biography”, is by Anthony Holden who wrote a previous book about Prince Charles with the Prince’s cooperation. Mr Holden reveals details of a meeting between Mrs Thatcher
and the Prince in his apartment at Kensington Palace in March this year, the “Sunday Times” reported. The meeting was an attempt to patch up their apparent differences on matters of public policy.
Mrs Thatcher could make no formal offer to the prince, because she may not stilb be in power in the mid-19905, Mr Holden said, but she did offer “a tantalising carrot”. The author said Mrs Thatcher “recalled Charles’s frustrated ambition to become Governor-General of Australia.”
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