The Prince of Wales’s lawyers are in the High Court in London today to establish the principle that the Prince’s private journals are not public documents that may freely be published “in the national interest”.

Recently The Mail on Sunday newspaper published extracts from the journal, which it obtained from a disgraced secretary who used to work in his office. The extracts concerned the ceremony to hand Hong Kong back to Chinese rule in 1994.

Charles was quoted as calling the event, “a Chinese takeaway”, and described the Chinese leaders as, “appalling old waxworks”.

Not surprisingly, he’s anxious that the Mail doesn’t publish any of the other eight journals it’s thought to have in its possession.

The case is ongoing. Royal Anecdotes will monitor proceedings and report them here.