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Sir Michael Peat: Prince Charles's Household not to blame
The Peat Report into allegations that the UK's Prince of Wales had an improper influence on the official handling of certain criminal matters last year has, unsurprisingly, given him a clean bill of health - it was written by his right-hand man. But inside it, there's this curiosity which I thought I'd share with you:

The Prince of Wales receives, and gives, a large number of gifts. For example, The Prince of Wales's Office has records of 2,394 official gifts received during the three years 1999, 2000 and 2001.

Furthermore, these gifts include 5 animals and livestock, 15 arms and armour, 53 pens and stationery, and 30 bottles of wine / spirits. Heck, it must be Christmas every day for the poor man, who is obviously in such a state (what with the media description of the report being that it's a whitewash) that he'll have to go and take a couple of hefty measures out of one of the 10-20 bottles of drink he's been given this year.