Prince Charles has never been in the IRA confirms Washington Post

The Washington Post made quite a blunder today.

Prince Charles has never been in the IRA confirms Washington Post

The US news organisation was reporting on Prince Charles' visit to Ireland and his meeting with Gerry Adams today, but they clearly got the two men confused in one paragraph.

"Prince Charles has always denied he's a member of the IRA," they wrote, "and during his trip to Ireland, Charles, who will be joined by the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit the village of Mullaghmore in County Sligo - where his great-uncle, Earl Mountbatten, was killed by an IRA bomb in 1979."

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