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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired November 10, 2003 - 05:44   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Becky Anderson live in London.
Becky, do I even need to ask?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a nightmare, isn't it?

COSTELLO: It is.

ANDERSON: About a week of damaging speculation around Prince Charles. The papers still going with this story. You know this story, we can't, here in the U.K., actually say anything about these damaging allegations that surround the Prince of Wales.

But the story today here in the "Daily Express," Charles planning historic TV denial. The story on the front of the "Daily Mail," Charles flies home for summit crisis with Will. That's Prince William, of course. And the papers really talking about Charles considering his options now about going on the offensive and trying to sort of dampen down this speculation.

And today in "The Independent," Charles considers his options amid of frenzy of rumors. "The Independent" suggesting he has four options at this point. Legal action, where he would actually go and sue those who are speculating about him, the television broadcast and a PR campaign. The suggestion that Prince Charles will make a broadcast to the nation. We don't know when. We don't know what it will be about. That's one story. An appeal to modern Britain and a veil of silence, the papers say, and that much we see (ph).

COSTELLO: Becky,...

ANDERSON: The best way of going about dampening this speculation -- yes, go on.

COSTELLO: Well, Becky, there are enough clues out there where people can pretty much put this together. What are the -- what is the British public saying about this?

ANDERSON: Well, the British public is speculating as much as everybody else is speculating. We, as I say, can't say anything here on air in the U.K. A Scottish newspaper actually writing the allegations, which was a surprise, bearing in mind that there is an injunction against the story getting out in the British press. So, for example, as I'm sure you know over the weekend, many of the continental European papers actually laying out these allegations, particularly in Italy, for example, and in Ireland. The papers, though, in Belfast, for example, part of the British Isles, weren't able to write about what everybody is talking about. They did in Scotland. We can't do here.

So, as I say, at this point,...

COSTELLO: Well,...

ANDERSON: ... we just have to say pure speculation, again, about allegations of, you know, you know what.

COSTELLO: Of whatever. But let me ask you this, Prince Charles...

ANDERSON: Don't ask (ph) me again.

COSTELLO: ... Prince Charles is going to go on television to deny some weird allegation out there that we don't even know what it is.

ANDERSON: That's right.

COSTELLO: How serious is this for the Royal Family?

ANDERSON: Well I think it's fairly serious. I mean the suggestion has been that if the Royal household and its advisors hadn't talked about this last week, hadn't tried to dampen down speculation, perhaps the story might just have gone away.

But it is an incredibly important Royal Family, of course, playing an incredibly important role in the U.K. Many people saying that this is about as bad as it gets for the Royal Family. But as I say, you know there is many -- there are many rumors. There's always speculation around many things in the U.K. and this, I suppose, is just another of those. But it will be interesting to see if indeed Prince Charles does go on air exactly what he'd be prepared to say.

That's the story out here. I mean it's all over the front pages, as you can imagine. I know terribly confusing.

COSTELLO: And yes,...

ANDERSON: That's all we can say.

COSTELLO: And yes, Prince Edward had a baby.

ANDERSON: Prince Edward had a baby, of course.

COSTELLO: Yes.

ANDERSON: Let me just do that. The Countess of Wessex surviving what the "Daily Mail" is calling a major medical emergency to give birth to her daughter. She's as yet unnamed. Prince Edward was away. He raced back from a trip to get to the bedside of his wife, who actually gave birth, it was an emergency cesarean section, in an NHS, a National Health Service hospital. The first time a Royal baby has been born in a public facility as opposed to a private one. They were actually booked in into a hospital in London.

But this was an emergency. She called 999. The ambulance turned up in some three minutes, whipped her to the hospital. Apparently both mom and daughter doing fine. No name as of yet.

COSTELLO: All right. We're glad about that.

Becky Anderson, many thanks.

ANDERSON: OK.

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Aired November 10, 2003 - 05:44   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Becky Anderson live in London.
Becky, do I even need to ask?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a nightmare, isn't it?

COSTELLO: It is.

ANDERSON: About a week of damaging speculation around Prince Charles. The papers still going with this story. You know this story, we can't, here in the U.K., actually say anything about these damaging allegations that surround the Prince of Wales.

But the story today here in the "Daily Express," Charles planning historic TV denial. The story on the front of the "Daily Mail," Charles flies home for summit crisis with Will. That's Prince William, of course. And the papers really talking about Charles considering his options now about going on the offensive and trying to sort of dampen down this speculation.

And today in "The Independent," Charles considers his options amid of frenzy of rumors. "The Independent" suggesting he has four options at this point. Legal action, where he would actually go and sue those who are speculating about him, the television broadcast and a PR campaign. The suggestion that Prince Charles will make a broadcast to the nation. We don't know when. We don't know what it will be about. That's one story. An appeal to modern Britain and a veil of silence, the papers say, and that much we see (ph).

COSTELLO: Becky,...

ANDERSON: The best way of going about dampening this speculation -- yes, go on.

COSTELLO: Well, Becky, there are enough clues out there where people can pretty much put this together. What are the -- what is the British public saying about this?

ANDERSON: Well, the British public is speculating as much as everybody else is speculating. We, as I say, can't say anything here on air in the U.K. A Scottish newspaper actually writing the allegations, which was a surprise, bearing in mind that there is an injunction against the story getting out in the British press. So, for example, as I'm sure you know over the weekend, many of the continental European papers actually laying out these allegations, particularly in Italy, for example, and in Ireland. The papers, though, in Belfast, for example, part of the British Isles, weren't able to write about what everybody is talking about. They did in Scotland. We can't do here.

So, as I say, at this point,...

COSTELLO: Well,...

ANDERSON: ... we just have to say pure speculation, again, about allegations of, you know, you know what.

COSTELLO: Of whatever. But let me ask you this, Prince Charles...

ANDERSON: Don't ask (ph) me again.

COSTELLO: ... Prince Charles is going to go on television to deny some weird allegation out there that we don't even know what it is.

ANDERSON: That's right.

COSTELLO: How serious is this for the Royal Family?

ANDERSON: Well I think it's fairly serious. I mean the suggestion has been that if the Royal household and its advisors hadn't talked about this last week, hadn't tried to dampen down speculation, perhaps the story might just have gone away.

But it is an incredibly important Royal Family, of course, playing an incredibly important role in the U.K. Many people saying that this is about as bad as it gets for the Royal Family. But as I say, you know there is many -- there are many rumors. There's always speculation around many things in the U.K. and this, I suppose, is just another of those. But it will be interesting to see if indeed Prince Charles does go on air exactly what he'd be prepared to say.

That's the story out here. I mean it's all over the front pages, as you can imagine. I know terribly confusing.

COSTELLO: And yes,...

ANDERSON: That's all we can say.

COSTELLO: And yes, Prince Edward had a baby.

ANDERSON: Prince Edward had a baby, of course.

COSTELLO: Yes.

ANDERSON: Let me just do that. The Countess of Wessex surviving what the "Daily Mail" is calling a major medical emergency to give birth to her daughter. She's as yet unnamed. Prince Edward was away. He raced back from a trip to get to the bedside of his wife, who actually gave birth, it was an emergency cesarean section, in an NHS, a National Health Service hospital. The first time a Royal baby has been born in a public facility as opposed to a private one. They were actually booked in into a hospital in London.

But this was an emergency. She called 999. The ambulance turned up in some three minutes, whipped her to the hospital. Apparently both mom and daughter doing fine. No name as of yet.

COSTELLO: All right. We're glad about that.

Becky Anderson, many thanks.

ANDERSON: OK.

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