Prince Charles ogled topless women on Sydney Harbour with Bob Hawke
‘Prime minister, they’re a pair of beauties!’ What Prince Charles told Bob Hawke as he ogled topless young women through binoculars on Sydney Harbour while Diana wasn’t watching, according to PM’s widow
- Blanche d’Alpuget described late husband Bob Hawke as ‘perpetually unfaithful’
- The 75-year-old spoke to The Project six months after the former leader’s death
- Ms d’Alpuget, who married Mr Hawke in 1995, recalled meeting him in the 1970s
- She described a Sydney Harbour trip with Mr Hawke, Prince Charles and Diana
- Prince Charles was spotting topless young women through a pair of binoculars
Prince Charles admired topless young women through a pair of binoculars on Sydney Harbour during Australia’s bicentennial celebrations, according to Bob Hawke’s widow.
Blanche d’Alpuget revealed the Prince of Wales was aboard a boat with the Labor prime minister on Australia Day, 1988, taking in the spectacular view while his wife Diana was sitting nearby.
The group was crossing the harbour to the Opera House and there were ‘millions of small boats,’ on the water, Ms d’Alpuget told The Project’s Lisa Wilkinson.
‘A lot of naughty Sydney girls [were] taking the tops of their bikinis off and Charles had a pair of binoculars,’ she said.
As the prince scanned the scene through his glasses he stopped at one point and exclaimed to Mr Hawke: ‘Prime minister, they’re a pair of beauties!’
Prince Charles ogled topless young women through a pair of binoculars on Sydney Harbour during Australia’s bicentennial celebrations, according to Bob Hawke’s widow Blanche d’Alpuget. The prince is pictured on the harbour that day with Mr Hawke
‘A lot of naughty Sydney girls [were] taking the tops of their bikinis off and Charles had a pair of binoculars,’ Ms d’Alpuget said. As the prince scanned the scene through his glasses he stopped at one point and told Mr Hawke: ‘Prime minister, they’re a pair of beauties!’
Ms d’Alpuget (pictured) told The Project’s Lisa Wilkinson she has been a ‘wreck’ while coming to terms with Mr Hawke’s death
‘They’re blokes, you know,’ Ms d’Alpuget said. ‘And Diana was sitting downstairs. She missed all of that fun.’
Ms d’Alpuget told the anecdote after saying she could not share the contents of a letter from Prince Charles following Mr Hawke’s death except to say it was ‘very eloquent and affectionate’.
Mr Hawke’s second wife described him as ‘perpetually unfaithful’ in the interview which came six months after his death.
The 75-year-old wed Mr Hawke after he divorced his first wife Hazel in 1994 and the couple spent 24 years married before he died aged 89 on May 16.
Early in her relationship with the former prime minister Ms d’Alpuget had been compared to Prince Charles’s mistress turned wife Camilla Parker Bowles.
Asked if that hurt, Ms d’Alpuget said: ‘No. I rather admire her.’
Ms d’Alpuget told the Sydney Harbour anecdote after saying she could not share the contents of a letter from Prince Charles following Mr Hawke’s death except to say it was ‘very eloquent and affectionate’. The Prince and Princess of Wales are pictured on the harbour that day
Pictured: Bob Hawke (left) and Blanche D’Alpuget (right) marry in Sydney in 1995
Ms d’Alpuget said she had been a ‘wreck’ while coming to terms with Mr Hawke’s death and has only ‘come good’ in the past week.
‘Up until then, I was pretty much a wreck. People coming up to supermarkets, I’d be trying to buy cauliflower and they come up and say, ”Just wanted to say…” And I’d cry on the cauliflower,’ she said.
Ms d’Alpuget recalled meeting the former Labor leader at a party in Jakarta in 1970 – more than 20 years before they married – and experiencing a ‘deep, instantaneous’ attraction.
‘I had no idea who he was. I thought his name was Robin. He sat down and we talked a lot. And I thought, ”You’re a good guy”,’ she said.
Wilkinson acknowledged the pair were both married at the time and asked Ms d’Alpuget if Mr Hawke had a ‘problem’ with their relationship beginning.
‘Are you kidding?’ Ms d’Alpuget responded.
Wilkinson then pressed further, asking the biographical writer if her husband ever felt guilty about infidelity.
Ms d’Alpuget (right with Mr Hawke) said: ‘Bob was not a faithful husband. I didn’t feel I was doing anything bad’
‘He was perpetually unfaithful. He loved Hazel and he was perpetually unfaithful,’ she said.
‘Bob was not a faithful husband. I didn’t feel I was doing anything bad.’
Ms d’Alpuget said marriage was not on her horizon, adding her relationship with Mr Hawke started over a ‘mind attraction’.
Ms d’Alpuget said her late husband was loved by Australia because he was a ‘genuine leader’.
‘People recognise genuine leaders intuitively. And he was a genuine leader. He had also done an enormous amount for the country,’ she said.
Mr Hawke, who led Labor to four election wins in a row between 1983 and 1991, died two days before the last federal election.
Mr Hawke (pictured with d’Alpuget), who led Labor to four election wins in a row between 1983 and 1991, died two days before the Federal Election at age 89
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