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Secret papers: Pay-TV

Thursday 01 January 1998 00:02 GMT
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Secret papers: Pay-TV

The Duke of Edinburgh lobbied Harold Wilson on behalf of commercial television interests. In a letter to the Prime Minister the Queen's husband spoke of "interesting" proposals for pay-TV, then being tested experimentally. Wilson, however, was cool: pay-TV would "tend inevitably to deprive the present services of some of their more popular items".

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