Lord Rogers of Riverside, one of the world’s leading architects, says that five developers told him that they presented names of practices to Clarence House “to check who would be acceptable”.
The architect, whose own designs were blocked by Prince Charles, said a developer told him that consulting the prince over plans was “one way we can minimise risk”.
His claims will reopen the debate over the degree of influence that Charles, who is 68, has on the built environment. Ever since he stunned the architecture profession in 1984 with an attack on a proposed extension to the National Gallery, he has intervened privately and publicly in developments.
