Some months ago in Paris gendarmes made the rounds of the newsstands, snatched up all visible copies of a scandal sheet called Ecoutez-Moi ("Listen To Me"), bore them off to headquarters, fed them to the furnace. The gendarmes were obeying orders from the Foreign Office, which had been stirred to action by the British Embassy, which had been outraged by an article entitled "The Prince of Wales is Bedworthy!"
From the French point of view, the offending article was far from unfriendly. "The most puzzling problem regarding the life of the Prince...
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