London, Dec. 20 : The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, is preparing to go solar in a big way.

He plans to place solar panels on the rooftops of Clarence House, his London home, to generate his own electricity for heating and lighting.

According to The Times, he has already called in experts to see how the photovoltaic panels can be fitted onto the existing tiles on the grade II-listed building without spoiling its historic look. One solution is for the panels to be fitted on the slopes of inward-facing roofs surrounding a courtyard at the 180-year-old mansion.

London, Dec 15 : Britain's Prince Charles, a veteran campaigner on environmental issues, plans to urge the UN Copenhagen conference to take "comprehensive and all-embracing" action to avert a climate change disaster, his office said Tuesday.

The prince, 61, has been invited by the Danish government to address the summit as heads of governments arrive. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due in Copenhagen later Tuesday.

The office of Prince Charles in London said he would touch on a range of themes and highlight how mankind had the power to bring the planet to the brink, but also the power to restore its balance.

London, Dec 9 : It has emerged that Prince Charles had once borrowed nearly 3,000 pounds from protection officers to pay for his travel expenses.

Charles, 61, returned 2,744.34 pounds to Scotland Yard after his Royal Protection team paid for what is thought to be flights abroad on a Metropolitan Police-issue corporate American Express card.

According to official documents, Clarence House paid the money back on December 4 2007, and the Met cashed the cheque on December 17 of that year.

London, Dec 9 : Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, borrowed nearly &pound3,000 from his protection officers as "travel expenses", a newspaper reported Wednesday.

London, Dec 3 : A royal musician accused of carrying out a string of burglaries was addicted to heroin during her time as Prince Charles's harpist, she told a court.

Jemima Phillips, who was appointed Charles's harpist in 2004, told a court in Gloucester Wednesday she started using crack cocaine, and then heroin five years ago.

Phillips, 28, who performed at Charles's wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 and other royal events attended by the Queen, is accused of stealing cash and electrical goods in four raids on private homes carried out along with her boyfriend.

London, November 3 : Prince Charles was said to be on a crusade to re-boost faith in British monarchy as he took his wife Camilla on her first tour of Canada.

The Royal allegedly hopes to convince sceptical Canadians to accept his better half as their next Queen amid opinion polls that suggested most of the public there was against having a British monarch as their head of state.

London, Sept 20 : Prince Charles and wife Camilla are turning wedding planners and “loaning out” their country retreat of Highgrove House to wannabe brides and grooms.

And included in the package will be the royal couple’s shared “expertise”.

Like Charles and Camilla did at their Windsor wedding four years ago, couples will be encouraged to “keep it simple”, say reports.

London, Sep 2 : A senior architect in Britain has accused Prince Charles of "abusing his position" to influence planning decisions.

Ruth Reed, the first woman president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), claims that the Prince of Wales used his royal status to interfere in the "democratic process".

She also accused him of writing letters "behind the scenes" to display his opinions on certain architects and building projects.

London, July 9 : Prince Charles has likened himself to Henry VIII, saying his ancestor was a tree hugger, just like him.

The Royal made the reference while urging action to stop climate change during the 2009 Richard Dimbleby Lecture in London.

“Henry instigated the very first piece of green legislation in this country. In ordering the building of a great many ships, he effectively founded the Royal Navy,” The Sun quoted him as saying.

“But there came a moment when Henry realised that creating his fleet was putting too much strain on the natural supply of wood, particularly oak,” he added.

London, July 4 : Prince Charles has paid tribute to Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a close friend, whose “heartbreaking” death in Afghanistan has left him “mortified”.

Charles, the colonel-in-chief of the Welsh Guards, had met the high-flying officer and his wife Sally many times.

London  - The public funds made available to Britain's Prince Charles rose by 25 per cent to 3 million pounds (4.9 million pounds) last year, an increase that sparked immediate controversy Tuesday.

While the prince's office defended the increase, commentators criticized the rise during a time of recession.

Accounts published Tuesday showed that the cost for travel undertaken by Prince Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, rose by 48 per cent to 1.7 million pounds over the past tax year.

London, June 2 : Prince Charles is expected to represent Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony to mark the landing of Allied troops on a beach in Normandy, France.

Pressure from the White House has forced the French Government to invite the British royal family for the D-Day commemoration ceremony on June 6 in Normandy.

"If the Queen wanted to attend these events, or if any member of the Royal family wanted to attend these events, I would make that possible," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the BBC.

London  - A private letter between royal friends over a Qatari-backed luxury housing project in London has reignited the long-standing style war between Britain's Prince Charles and the country's architectural elite.

"Abolish the monarchy," shouted a lone voice as Prince Charles wound up a lecture to mark the 175th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London Tuesday evening.

London, May 6 : The Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles, has backed the campaign against the Government's treatment of the Gurkhas.

According to The Telegraph, British actress Joanna Lumley, who is spearheading the campaign for better treatment of Gurkha soldiers, told MPs that she had received a private letter of support from a member of the Royal Family.

London, May 5 : Britain's Prince Charles will break new ground today when he becomes the first senior member of the Royal Family to utilize the social networking site MySpace in carrying out his official duties.

According to The Telegraph, the future King will broadcast a passionate plea to save the rainforests on MySpace.

In taking his message onto the Internet, Charles will follow in the footsteps of Queen Elizabeth, who last week sent her first official e-mail to mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth.

London, May 2 : In a case of utmost irony, Prince Charles, who is touring the world, campaigning to save the rainforests, is selling products containing an ingredient blamed for wrecking them.

In the past year, Prince Charles has flown to the Amazon and Indonesia to lecture politicians, businesses and the public about the need to save rainforests, whose rapid destruction kills rare animals and hastens climate change.

Berlin - Britain's Prince Charles visited Berlin's newly renovated New Museum on Thursday, during a two-day visit to Germany accompanied by his wife Camilla.

The prince was shown around by British architect David Chipperfield, who has just finished renovating the future home of Egyptian pharaonic queen Nefertiti.

The refurbished building on Berlin's Museum Island is due to house the state's Egyptian collection including the famous bust when it reopens in October, for the first time in 70 years.

Berlin - Britain's Prince Charles watched a football match between different religious groups at the start of a two-day visit to the German capital on Wednesday.

The heir to the British throne was accompanied by his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, when he attended the game in Berlin's multicultural district of Kreuzberg.

Hundreds of schoolchildren waving homemade British and Turkish flags welcomed the royal couple as they arrived at the stadium where an integration project "Strength without Violence" was also held.

Washington, Apr 29: Hollywood actress Elizabeth Hurley has joined forces with Prince Charles to launch a new range of low-fat organic food.

The ‘Bedazzled’ actress was reportedly motivated to foray into the catering business after reading dietary advice for women hoping to avoid breast cancer, reports Contactmusic.

Elizabeth’s range of meat and grain products will be sold by Charles'' sustainable food company, The Duchy Originals.

The food range will hit the markets in October (09).

London, Apr. 28 : Heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, has warned that the world risks the possibility of plunging into a "new Dark Age" unless urgent action is taken on climate change.

During his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, Charles said the global economic crisis was "nothing" compared with the "horror" of global warming.