Royal rumours keeps British on tenterhooks

BRITAIN’S public was agog and its newshounds salivating yesterday over perhaps the most bizarre royal scandal yet — the case of what Prince Charles says he didn’t do.

After days of feverish speculation that a bombshell was about to detonate in the press, the heir to the throne sent his private secretary to deny he had done something apparently so outrageous that nobody is allowed to say what it was, or what it wasn't.

But with scandal-mad newspapers feasting on the non-tale, the endless torment of the House of Windsor looked set to go on.