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