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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, KG KT GCB OM AK QSO CD SOM GCL PC AdC(P) FRS (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. In Scotland he is known as The Duke of Rothesay. The Prince is a patron of more than 400 organisations.[1]


Support for Countryside Alliance

In October 2009, Charles took his son William fox hunting on the first day of the hunting season at a time when legislation to ban hunting was set to be announced in the Queen's speech.[2] Charles lent his house to the Countryside Alliance for a cocktail party [3]

Support for alternative medicine

The Prince personally wrote at least seven letters[4] to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) shortly before they introduced regulations in 2006 allowing "homoeopathic treatment" to "claim efficacy measured by their own methods", a decision that was condemned in an article by Times science correspondent Mark Henderson and Nigel Hawkes. The article quoted as its main sources Tracey Brown, director of big pharma-funded lobby group Sense About Science, Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat science spokesperson, and Michael Baum, a cancer surgeon.[5]

In 2009, Prince Charles called for herbalists and acupuncturists to be formally regulated. [6] The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health charity argued that without a statutory reguation scheme for herbalists: "many herbalists will no longer be able to offer remedies to their clients and patients will instead turn to the black market."[7]

In May 2009, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that an advert for a herbal remedy commissioned by Duchy Originals (a company owned by Prince Charles) was misleading.[8]

References

  1. "Patronages",princeofwales.gov.uk (accessed 27 March 2011)
  2. UK Prince Charles takes sons hunting, BBC, 30 October 1999 (accessed: 29 March 2011)
  3. "Who funds the Countryside Alliance?", CorporateWatch (accessed 8 March 2011)
  4. HRH “meddling in politics”.  DC's Improbable Science.
  5. Nigel Hawkes and Mark Henderson, Doctors attack natural remedy claims, The Times, 1 Sept 2006
  6. Fiona Macrae, "Prince Charles calls for herbal medicine to be formally regulated" Daily Mail, 1 December 2009 (accessed: 8 March 2011)
  7. Prince Charles: 'Herbal medicine must be regulated'.  BBC. (accessed 8 March 2011)
  8. Prince firm's advert 'misleading'.  BBC. (accessed 8 March 2011)