A High Court judge has criticised the Prince of Wales for an "unexpected and unwelcome" intervention in a planned £1bn complex at Chelsea Barracks.

Developer CPC Group claimed its Qatari partner pulled out after the prince attacked the proposed design.

It gained a partial victory when Mr Justice Vos ruled that the Qatari group breached its contract.

He refused to award CPC Group the £68m value of the deal but will consider a claim for damages or loss of earnings.

The judge said both CPC Group and Qatari Diar "were faced with a very difficult position once the Prince of Wales intervened in the planning process".

"His intervention was, no doubt, unexpected and unwelcome," he added.

He went on: "Qatari Diar was not withdrawing because it wanted to, or because it wanted to stop CPC getting its money.

"It was between a rock and a hard place, and was doing the best it could in difficult circumstances."

Source: BBC News