article_snippet: The correspondence – nicknamed black spider memos because of Charles''s scrawling handwriting and use of underlining and exclamation marks – is said, according to previous Attorney General Dominic Grieve, to contain 'full and frank' expressions of the Prince 'most deeply held personal views'.
article_snippet: An August 2000 letter from Lord Irvine, Tony Blair's mentor and later the Lord Chancellor, heavily annotated by Charles' in Tony Blair's 'black spider' handwriting .
article_snippet: As the furore over his 'black spider' letters peaked in 2012, the heir to throne was said to be unrepentant about the row furore sparked by the Government's decision to stop 27 'particularly frank' letters written to ministers in the last Labour government to be revealed.
article_snippet: Charles prolific missives are known as 'black spider memos' because of Charles scrawled handwriting.
highlights_snippet: Known as 'black spider' memos because of royal's scrawled handwriting .
  