Tibet group: Prince to boycott Games

Britain's Prince Charles will not attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- and a group that campaigns against China's human rights record said Monday that the future monarch's decision was in solidarity with its aims.

Free Tibet Campaign officials said they had written to the Prince of Wales asking him to stay away from the event, which begins on August 8.

However, it was not clear if the prince had been invited to attend -- he is believed to have gone to an Olympics only once before, when his sister Princess Anne competed in Montreal in 1976.

The Princess Royal's daughter, Zara Phillips, is hoping to represent Britain in equestrian at the event this year. Her father, Captain Mark Phillips, won a gold medal at the 1972 Munich Games.

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