OHMS, a senior member of the royal family (we must now assume Charlie)wrote to the Mail on Sunday warning of serious consequences if they published Geroge Smith's story. It was certainly Fawcett who sought the injunction, but quite possible he was acting as a frontman for hte palace. He seems to have been ready to take on huge legal bills, and there has been speculation about where he would have raised that kind of dough.

Meanwhile Charles has now gone on the record to refute that he was ever involved in "a serious incident."