Seven things we learnt about Prince Charles from his ‘black spider’ letters

Prince Charles’s ‘black spider’ letters have just been released. Here are seven things we learnt about the future monarch from the correspondence:

1) He wants consumers to buy British (from a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2004):

2) He is worried about defence spending (from a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2004):

3) He is interested in protecting architectural heritage (from a response to a letter from 2004 inviting the Secretary of State for Culture to a conference):

4) He is concerned about the ‘poor old’ albatross and the Patagonian Toothfish (from a letter to the Minister for the Environment from 2004):

5) He wants to cull badgers and thinks the ‘badger lobby’ is ‘intellectually dishonest’ (from a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2005):

6) He’s concerned about the diet of schoolchildren (from a response to a letter to the Secretary of State for Education from 2004):

7) He has a suggestion about who should be hired for a government job (from a letter to Tony Blair from 2005):