Fed: I don't know if prince pays my bills: war heroine
SYDNEY, Feb 11 AAP - Australian war heroine Nancy Wake says she is angry and embarrassedabout reports on her private life and isn't sure if Prince Charles is subsidising herstay in a fancy London hotel.
According to a British newspaper report, Charles stepped in to help Ms Wake pay herSTG80,000 ($A221,700) a year bill at Piccadilly's Stafford Hotel because she had financialdifficulties.
A St James's Palace spokesman told the Daily Mirror the prince was helping to pay herhotel bills.
"He was delighted to meet her and to hear of the tremendous work she did during thewar. He's keen to help her," the spokesman said.
But the World War II freedom fighter today said she was not aware of any such assistancefrom the prince regent and if she was she wouldn't talk about it anyway.
"I don't know (if he's giving financial assistance)," she told radio 2UE.
"I've heard these rumours but he hasn't told me himself."
Ms Wake, whose work for the French Resistance was the inspiration for the Cate Blanchettfilm Charlotte Gray, said she was sick of reporters muckraking through her life.
"It's very embarrassing," she said.
"I'm sick and tired of people wanting to know about my private affairs."
The 90-year-old admitted she did have six gin and tonics a day but insisted she nevergot drunk or caused a fuss.
"What has that got to do with anybody?" she said.
Ms Wake also said it was not true she had sold her war medals, as was reported, sayingshe still had them with her.
"I wouldn't sell them for all the tea in China," she said.
In 1940, as Nazi troops marched across Europe, Ms Wake joined the French Resistance,helping hundreds of people escape capture and rescuing British airmen shot down over France.
Eventually she was forced to flee France for Britain, where she convinced the governmentto train her as a spy.
She was dropped into the French countryside by parachute to provide weapons to resistancefighters hiding in the mountains and took control of 7,500 freedom fighters before theD-day landings.
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