UK Supreme Court rules Prince Charles' letters to govt. ministers, aimed at influencing policy,

can be published.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/26/supreme-court-clears-way-release-secret-prince-charles-letters-black-spider-memos

..."The UK supreme court has cleared the way for the publication of secret letters written by Prince Charles to British government ministers, declaring that an attempt by the state to keep them concealed was unlawful. The verdict – the culmination of a 10-year legal fight by the Guardian – is a significant blow for the government, which has been battling to protect Charles from scrutiny over his “particularly frank” interventions on public policy.
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No date has been fixed yet for the publication of the letters. The Sun reported on Wednesday that David Cameron had told Charles that he would l attempt to change the law to prevent the letters ever being released.
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The judges concluded that the then attorney general, Dominic Grieve, did not have the legal power to veto a freedom of information tribunal, which had decided the letters should be published.

In 2012, the tribunal ruled that the 27 pieces of correspondence between the prince and ministers in Tony Blair’s government should be made public.
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Grieve overruled the tribunal, arguing that publication of the letters between September 2004 and April 2005 would seriously damage the Prince of Wales’s kingship.

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Paul Flynn MP, a Labour member of the commons political and constitutional reform committee, said the ruling could increase public demand for the crown to be passed straight to Prince William when the Queen dies.

“This opens up a much bigger issue,” he said. “If there are serious questions about the suitability of Prince Charles as a monarch there could be a question in the public mind about whether to skip a generation. The attorney general already said the main justification for keeping the letters secret was they would hinder Charles ability to be a successful monarch.”

He added: “This has been a waste of a considerable sum of taxpayers’ money trying to prevent as knowing the truth about someone who will become our king. It is an example of the abject subservience to royalty.”