London - (Sticky Business): It started as a nasty deep throat infection that's now spread to the entire abominal - er, abdominal! - area.
And this week it's laid low Prince Charles just as his wacky Foundation for Integrated Quackery ex-CEO George Gray was charged with theft, fraud and money laundering.
CPS sources say the £300,000 scam was part of a larger sophisticated con that began with Charles' 1993launch of a homeopathetic charity.
Accountant Gray is accused of blatantly milking the Foundation whose sole raison d'etre was the duping of gullible wackjobs into funding complimentary (sick) medicine ruses.
A police probe also uncovered financial links to disgraced former Royal Freak Hospital gastroenterologist Dr Andrew Wakefield, defrocked earlier this month by the General Medical Council for peddling pernicious quackery.
Palace sources fear Gray, 69, will name Charles as his con trick accomplice when the full fraud trial commences later this year.
HRH the Pretender to the Puppet Throne has been advised by his physician to take a complete rest from public posturings 'for at least a couple of months' ahead of Gray's trial.
Camilla's HRT patches are replacing lost hormones with undiluted anti-psychotics.
