- Zosia Kmietowicz
The
Prince of Wales won influence over Prime Minister Tony Blair and
delayed the introduction of regulations governing the sale of herbal
medicines, letters between the heir to the throne and government
ministers have revealed.
The prince wrote to the then
prime minister in February 2005 about the European Union’s Directive on
Herbal Medicines, claiming that it was having “a deleterious effect on
complementary medicine sector in this country by effectively outlawing
the use of certain herbal extracts.”
The 27 letters were
released on 13 May after orders from the Supreme Court in response to a
freedom of information request submitted by the Guardian newspaper 10 years ago.
