Pictured: Charles's fawning letter to Gaddafi discovered at one of despot's palaces

By SAM GREENHILL and REBECCA ENGLISH



Penned a letter: Prince Charles's 2007 letter to Colonel Gaddafi called for greater ties between the two nations



Fawning letters from Prince Charles and Tony Blair to Colonel Gaddafi have been discovered at one of the despot's palaces.

Addressing the dictator as 'Your Excellency', the heir to the throne called for greater ties between Libya and the UK.

It is the latest embarrassing link to emerge between the British Establishment and Gaddafi's regime, following revelations that Prince Andrew was also used as a go-between.



In his letter to toe late Libyan leader, Prince Charles called for greater ties between Libya and the UK



Prince Charles's letter is dated June 7, 2007, and was discovered in a palace used by Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's London-educated playboy son.

The prince praised the dictator for his work with Christians, Aids victims and the British Council, writing: 'I just wanted to write to Your Excellency to say how heartened I am by the breadth of these developments.'



Former prime minister Tony Blair meets Colonel Gaddafi at his desert base outside Sirte south of Tripoli in 2004



Charles's letter was sent days after Tony Blair had visited Libya in his final weeks as Prime Minister to seek oil and defence deals for British companies.

The prince went on to say he had been briefed on Mr Blair's trip and 'the positive way in which relations between Libya and the United Kingdom are developing'.

Another letter to Gaddafi was sent by Mr Blair a month later, stressing the determination of his government to pursue deals with his regime.



Both letters preceded an agreement to provide an air defence system which would have been designed to thwart the type of attacks with which Nato helped to unseat Gaddafi.

Last month, Prince Andrew's role was revealed in papers discovered at the British ambassador's residence in Tripoli.



Prince Andrew's role was revealed in papers discovered at the British ambassador's residence in Tripoli



The Duke of York was offered up to meet Gaddafi as the Labour government desperately tried to appease the unpredictable dictator.

Royal sources insisted that Charles's letter was nothing to do with defence contracts, and was part of an international campaign to free six Bulgarian nurses imprisoned in 1998 after being falsely accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV.



source: dailymail

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