Not to Royal taste

It’s not often that the heir to the throne comes in for a public ticking-off, but that’s exactly what the Prince of Wales has received from Lord Rogers of Riverside.

The esteemed architect is furious that Charles, in his words, “used his power to break a constitutional understanding” after his glass and steel designs to redevelop the former Chelsea Barracks were dropped.

Lord Rogers says that the Prince wrote to the chairman of Qatari Diar, the property investment arm of the Qatar state, urging him to look at classical design alternatives for the prestigious site in central London and in so doing, singlehandedly destroyed his modernist project.

So did the Prince overstep the mark? And should a committee be examined, as Lord Rogers suggests, to reexamine the Royal remit?

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