From The Daily Mail-
Over the years, I have been a fierce critic of Prince Charles.
Yet now an inquiry has ‘damned’ him over his misguided backing for a
bishop exposed as a serial paedophile, I find myself in the unusual
position of being his defender.
Peter Ball, the former Bishop of Gloucester, was convicted in 2015 of abusing 18 boys and young men.
By
then, he had been a friend of Charles for more than 20 years — despite
Ball having been cautioned by the police in 1993 for gross indecency and
resigning from the Church in disgrace.
Charles saw him regularly and corresponded
with him, telling him he was the victim of ‘monstrous wrongs’ and
giving him money. The bishop prayed with the Prince at Highgrove and
became Charles’s long-term mentor.
The
Prince claimed that he never realised Ball’s 1993 caution carried an
admission of guilt. But that seems naïve, particularly for a future head
of the Church of England.
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