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Charles said he wished he could do more to help Ball, letters published by the independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse showed.
Ball had told Charles a single accuser who bore a grudge was behind allegations which led to his having to quit as bishop.
But, with the support of the then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, he continued to officiate in the Church until 2010.
Charles supported him and even found a home for him and his brother Michael, Bishop of Truro, on his Duchy of Cornwall estate between 1997 and 2011.
In a letter to Ball on March 23, 1997, Charles wrote: “I will see off this horrid man if he tries anything again.”
Just over two years earlier, on February 16, 1995, he wrote: “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.”
In a letter read out as an effective witness statement at the inquiry yesterday, Charles, 69, said he could “not shed any light” on whom he was referring to in the 1997 letter.
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