Several months ago, while Edward Heath was still Britain’s Prime Minister, one of those good will cruises, traditional for members of the royal family, was planned for Prince Charles aboard the frigate Jupiter. On April 3 a short news item was printed on an inside page of the Times (London) : “PRINCE’S AZORES visit cut. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed yesterday that the frigate Jupiter which is due to visit the Azores on April 17 with the Prince of Wales on board will make only a short refueling stop. The Azores are Portuguese territory. Recently, plans for the frigate to visit Chile, Greece, and South Africa have been canceled.”
A few days earlier the following colloquy had taken place at a session of the Commons:
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