Convention states that members of the Royal Family are expected to be apolitical in public, meaning they do not vote or state partisan views. According to the Royal Family's website, the Queen must remain “strictly neutral with respect to political matters” and is “unable to vote or stand for election". The Prince of Wales must follow suit. For this reason, when he talked about Britain’s future relations with Germany during his recent trip to Berlin, he carefully avoided the word “Brexit”, as it was deemed too sensitive.
However, according to a newly-resurfaced report put together by the Bruges Group – a think tank based in the UK which advocated for a restructuring of Britain’s relationship with the bloc – Charles was vocal about the EEC before the Maastricht Treaty came into force, calling it a "maddening bureaucracy".
The report, seen by Express.co.uk, reads: “Prince Charles summarised the views of this campaign when he spoke to the French President at dinner on November 8, 1988."
The report then quotes Charles as saying to Francois Mitterand: “The current emphasis on standardisation and maddening bureaucratic regulations may be necessary for economic success.
"To make Europe a practical and romantic possibility, I believe we should be careful and not be too missionary.
Prince Charles reportedly called the bloc a (Image: GETTY/EXPRESS.CO.UK )
Prince of Wales gives a speech at the British Ambassador's residence in
