https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5881041/Prince-Charles-wanted-Vivian-Stanshall-Bonzo-Dog-Doo-Dah-Band-Poet-Laureate.htmlStanshall died, aged 51, in an electrical fire at his flat in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1995.
Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate at the time of the reported phone call to Stanshall.
After Hughes' death in 1998, Sir Andrew Motion was appointed.
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loginStanshall, battled alcoholism, crippling anxiety and an addiction to Valium during his life.
'Writing to order? I should coco!' she said. 'What he would have liked was to have his demons bugger off on a few more tea breaks.'
Clarence House sources said it would be impossible to verify, so long after the event, the nature of the phone call or if it was genuine.
A spokesman for Prince Charles declined to comment.