article_snippet: Yesterday's ruling by the UK's highest court follows a nine-year legal battle between the Government and The Guardian newspaper, which used the Freedom of Information Act to apply for 27 letters written by the Prince to senior politicians to be released.
article_snippet: the Prince also said the Prince was disappointed by Yesterday's ruling by the UK's highest court.
article_snippet: they are probably the only letters to be released because the law has been changed to make correspondence by senior members of the Royal Family exempt from FOI requests.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron echoed Clarence House's views yesterday, saying: 'This is a disappointing judgment and we will now consider how to release the only letters to be released because the law has been changed to make correspondence by senior members of the Royal Family exempt from FOI requests.
article_snippet: This is about the principle that senior members of the Royal Family are able to express senior members of the Royal Family views to government confidentially.'
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Prince said: 'Clarence House is disappointed the principle that senior members of the Royal Family are able to express their views to government confidentially has not been upheld.'
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said the ruling was 'disappointing' and argued that senior Royals should be able to communicate with ministers 'confidentially' But senior royal sources also insisted that Charles and Charles team were quite 'sanguine' about the decision. '
article_snippet: This has come down to quite a narrow legal principle and was not about the content of the letters,' one said.
article_snippet: Asked whether the ruling would stop the Prince writing to ministers, The source said: 'This is a small loophole in the law that the Government have very quickly closed.
article_snippet: Courtiers told the Mail that the Mail is the prince's 'right and absolute duty' to correspond with politicians over issues that affect the prince country and future subjects.