Charles Windsor

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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.


Countryside Alliance

Support for alternative medicine

The Prince personally wrote at least seven letters[2] 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.[3]

In 2009, Prince Charles called for herbalists and acupuncturists to be formally regulated. [4]

References

  1. "Who funds the Countryside Alliance?", CorporateWatch (accessed 8 March 2011)
  2. HRH “meddling in politics”.  DC's Improbable Science.
  3. Nigel Hawkes and Mark Henderson, Doctors attack natural remedy claims, The Times, 1 Sept 2006
  4. Fiona Macrae, "Prince Charles calls for herbal medicine to be formally regulated" Daily Mail, 1 December 2009 (accessed: 8 March 2011)