Prince Charles sues

The Advertiser: Prince Charles sues tabloid :

"'This is a matter of principle,' said his principal private secretary Sir Michael Peat in a statement.

'Like anybody else, the Prince of Wales is entitled to write a private journal without extracts being published."

It's time people fought back or we have no way of just being normal folk with our less than charitable thoughts at times. We need to be able to say what we think and then change our minds. It's how we are. People keep diaries, they make phone calls, they send emails, they chat to others. If everything is published firstly it is denying something we all do and secondly it means we will say nothing...and a world devoid of thought and gossip is pretty damn bland. People have the right to their own private thoughts and the more peoeple like Prince Charles and Nicole Kidman take up the battle and tell people to stop interfering and making everything public, then the better off we'll be. Ther are some things we shouldn't know. I couldn't believe we had the details of Bill Clinton's private life splattered everywhere. We had no choice. There is this thing called respect. It used to be a massive offense to poke into other people's letters and journals. I nearly brained my brother for reading my diary when I lived at home. Fortunately, my father straightened him out.