Fed-up journo in right royal PR gaffe

'Bloody man'

by Thames Valley

The media's bruised relationship with Prince Charles took another battering at an official photo call today, when one of the reporters among the collection of journalists and photographers dutifully gathered to record the occasion appeared to call the Prince a "bloody man" and remarked: "I hate doing this pointless work."

The member of the press, who will also be covering Charles's marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles this month, made the comments as he lined up in front of the Prince who was appearing with his sons, William and Harry, to pose for the traditional photos of the royal skiing jolly at an upmarket Swiss resort. The journalist is reported to have been unwillingly transferred from his previous "beat" of European politics to cover the Royal household due to an unexpected and acute lack of interest from the British public in his reports from Brussels on the nuances of the Commission's directives concerning pan-continental solid waste disposal and related topics of import.

The journalist looked pained after being asked by his new colleagues how he was feeling about having to cover the big day in Windsor instead of travelling to Stuttgart to meet with EU Defence ministers at a prestigious conference on technological advances in European warship sonar communications. He simply replied: "I'm very glad you've heard I'm doing it," before reportedly muttering under his breath: "Bloody Royals."

After reluctantly posing a question to the Prince, the St Kilda Herring's new royal correspondent was heard to say: "I can't bear that man, anyway. He's so awful, he really is. Jug-eared and stupid."

In his defence, the journalist's editor said the experienced reporter had been "upset" by the inane banter of some reporters from other papers ahead of today's official photo call, but denied that he might in any way be fundamentally unsatisfied with his new role on the paper.

St Kilda Herring editor, Juan Sebastian Gaucho, told The Rockall Times: "He just wasn't looking forward to it that particular day. He prefers it when it's just him and his subject and he can get some views on the Common Agricultural Policy or the EU's expansion into Eastern Europe. He just wanted to try to get some intelligent comments from the Prince before His Majesty went up into the mountains with his sons."

Observers reported the journalist wincing when the man from the Daily Star expressed more interest in news of Prince William's latest squeeze and laughed at another hack's query as to Charles's view on the need for greater broadband resources for the newly disadvantaged on the EU's economic periphery.

"He doesn't have contempt for the Prince," added Gaucho. "We have an agreement with the House of Wales whereby Charles gives the press 15 minutes' access before the annual winter holiday and the British taxpayer stumps up £50m a year for him to indulge in organic farming and architectural critique in return. Our man's chomping at the bit to get to Windsor and ask the Prince his considered view on divided tax harmonisation amongst EU firms."

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