London, July 11:  Pope Benedict XVI has turned down the invitation to meet Prince Charles on his first state visit to Britain in September, claiming he is "too busy", a media report said Sunday.

The two men will not get together even though Prince Charles will be in Scotland when the Pontiff starts his three-day trip by calling on the Queen and Prince Philip at Holyrood House in Edinburgh, the Mail Online reported.

It has been informed that the Queen will not attend the Commonwealth Games to be held in the month of October this year in India. The Queen is the head of the Commonwealth.

Spokesperson form Buckingham Palace has confirmed this fact. It has also informed that Prince Charles will represent the Royal Family instead of the Queen.

However, the Queen has been associated with this grand event for past several years. This will be the first time in last ten years that she will not participate in Commonwealth Games. She used to attend either the opening or closing ceremony of the event.

According to the media reports, the Queen and Prince Charles have offered support to Duchess of York over the cash-for-royal-access scandal.

It had been reported that Sarah Ferguson, whose debts are estimated at between 1 million pounds and 4 million pounds, was caught on film accepting 27,000 pounds in cash to fix access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew, Britain's trade envoy.

She was seen asking an undercover reporter to wire another 500,000 pounds into her personal account.

Officials reported that British Queen had listed all her appointments for the October month but had not included her visit to Delhi in October. This will be for the first time over 40 years that Queen will not be attending Commonwealth games which are scheduled to be held in India from October 3-14. It is revealed that Prince Charles will be representing the royal family instead of Queen Elizabeth.

Prince Charles will portray as an employee in BBC for a documentary series, composed by Hubert Perry, the one recognized for the works on Jerusalem.

According to the reports this deal falls in place, as Perry happens to be one of the Prince's favorites and this documentary adds an enthusiasm to the production.

This series will witness the Prince acting as a presenter in BBC.

Hubert Perry is considered as one of the UK's most recognized composers whose music is favored by millions of people and yet he remains to be an unknown figure.

A two-day trip to Afghanistan was ended by Prince Charles with a briefing Thursday from U. S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commands NATO forces there.

The Guardian has reported that the Prince of Wales is the most senior member of the British royal family to visit Afghanistan, where his younger son, Prince Harry, was deployed for several months. He is "the only royal in living memory" to have traveled to Kabul, the Afghan capital, his office said in a statement.

London, Mar. 21 : In order to protect Prince Charles from public scrutiny, the British Government is trying to amend a law that would lead to a blanket ban on anyone disclosing information about the royal family.

British Justice Secretary Jack Straw tabled an amendment to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill to prevent anyone from seeking information about Prince Charles, the Queen and Prince William, The Times reports.

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.