Russia's fury as Charles storm grows: Putin aides demand urgent talks with Foreign Office
-Prince Charles likened President Putin to Adolf Hitler during Canada tour
-Kremlin condemned words as 'deeply insulting', called for urgent talks
-Labour MPs called for Charles to abdicate if he has political views
-Pro-Putin media is now linking the Royal Family to Nazis in retaliation
-Putin and Charles are both due to attend a war memorial in Colville in June
By James Chapman and Rebecca English and Daniel Martin
Angry Russian diplomats will today demand an official explanation for Prince Charles’s likening of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
Amid international controversy over the prince’s remarks, Whitehall sources say Moscow has insisted on face-to-face talks at the Foreign Office.
‘The Russians have said they want to discuss this issue,’ said an insider. ‘We will have to see how they decide to play it.’
Britain’s three main party leaders have defended Charles’s right to speak out following the Mail’s revelation that he had compared the Russian president’s actions in Ukraine to Hitler’s seizure of territory in Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
But the remark has caused outrage across Russia. A Kremlin source said it was ‘deeply insulting to the leader of a country that lost almost 30million lives defeating the Nazis’.
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