Editing Charles III (section)

=== Reaction to press treatment ===
In 1994 the German tabloid ''[[Bild]]'' published nude photos of Charles that were taken while he was vacationing in [[Le Barroux]]; they had reportedly been put up for sale for £30,000.<ref name="Independent-Sept94">{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Rhys |date=7 September 1994 |title='Hunky' Prince is exposed to public gaze |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hunky-prince-is-exposed-to-public-gaze-1447414.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718040840/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hunky-prince-is-exposed-to-public-gaze-1447414.html |archive-date=18 July 2022 |access-date=18 July 2022 |work=The Independent (UK) |publisher=Independent Digital News & Media Ltd |issn=1741-9743 |oclc=185201487}}</ref> Buckingham Palace reacted by stating that it was "unjustifiable for anybody to suffer this sort of intrusion".<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 September 1994 |title=German Tabloid Publishes Photo of Nude Prince Charles |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-08-mn-36022-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718040840/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-08-mn-36022-story.html |archive-date=18 July 2022 |access-date=18 July 2022 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

Charles, "so often a target of the press, got his chance to return fire" in 2002, when addressing "scores of editors, publishers, and other media executives" gathered at [[St Bride's Fleet Street]] to celebrate 300 years of journalism.{{efn|London's first daily newspaper, the ''[[Daily Courant]]'', was published in 1702.}}<ref name="Woods">{{Cite web |last=Woods |first=Audrey |date=11 March 2002 |title=Prince Charles addresses editors |url=https://apnews.com/92deb09f64410b55cdfc261db024282b |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918060017/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2002/Prince-Charles-Addresses-Editors/id-92deb09f64410b55cdfc261db024282b |archive-date=18 September 2012 |access-date=17 June 2012 |publisher=AP News Archive}}</ref> Defending public servants from "the corrosive drip of constant criticism", he noted that the press had been "awkward, cantankerous, cynical, bloody-minded, at times intrusive, at times inaccurate, and at times deeply unfair and harmful to individuals and to institutions."<ref name=Woods/> But, he concluded, regarding his own relations with the press, "from time to time we are probably both a bit hard on each other, exaggerating the downsides and ignoring the good points in each."<ref name=Woods/>
[[File:FEMA - 18543 - Photograph by Marvin Nauman taken on 11-04-2005 in Louisiana.jpg|thumb|right|With Camilla (centre left) in front of the media pack in the [[French Quarter]] of [[New Orleans]], United States, as part of [[Hurricane Katrina]] recovery efforts, November 2005|alt=Charles and Camilla amidst a crowd of people, mostly reporters and photographers, in New Orleans]]

In 2006 Charles [[Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Ltd|filed a court case]] against ''[[The Mail on Sunday]]'', after excerpts of his personal journals were published, revealing his opinions on matters such as the [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong]] to China in 1997, in which Charles described the Chinese government officials as "appalling old waxworks".<ref name="BBCjournals">{{Cite news |date=21 February 2006 |title=Charles 'adopted dissident role' |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4734798.stm |url-status=live |access-date=2 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202181743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4734798.stm |archive-date=2 December 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes-charlesgothrone-sept82022">{{Cite news |last=Landler |first=Mark |date=8 September 2022 |title=Long an Uneasy Prince, King Charles III Takes On a Role He Was Born To |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/world/europe/charles-king-uk.html |url-status=live |access-date=19 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920024032/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/world/europe/charles-king-uk.html |archive-date=20 September 2022 |oclc=1645522}}</ref> Charles and Camilla were named in 2011 as [[List of news media phone hacking scandal victims|individuals whose confidential information was reportedly targeted or actually acquired]] in conjunction with the [[news media phone hacking scandal]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Rainey |first1=Sarah |last2=Blenkinsop |first2=Andrew |date=13 July 2011 |title=Phone hacking: who's who in the News International scandal |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8635999/Phone-hacking-whos-who-in-the-News-International-scandal.html |url-status=live |access-date=19 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219183123/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8635999/Phone-hacking-whos-who-in-the-News-International-scandal.html |archive-date=19 December 2022}}</ref>

''[[The Independent]]'' noted in 2015 that Charles would only speak to broadcasters "on the condition they have signed a 15-page contract, demanding that Clarence House attends both the 'rough cut' and 'fine cut' edits of films and, if it is unhappy with the final product, can 'remove the contribution in its entirety from the programme'."<ref name="I.Burrell15">{{Cite news |last=Burrell |first=Ian |date=2 December 2015 |title=The 15-page contract that reveals how Charles tries to control the media |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charles-the-15page-contract-that-reveals-how-the-prince-of-wales-tries-to-control-the-media-a6756541.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421210152/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charles-the-15page-contract-that-reveals-how-the-prince-of-wales-tries-to-control-the-media-a6756541.html |archive-date=21 April 2022 |access-date=21 April 2022 |work=The Independent |issn=1741-9743|oclc=185201487}}</ref> This contract stipulated that all questions directed at Charles must be pre-approved and [[vetted]] by his representatives.<ref name=I.Burrell15/>